Word: leanings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boiled it down to a question of whether Giant pitching-by Hubbell, Schumacher and Fitzsimmons- could beat Yankee hitting. For nonexperts, the question was even simpler. For them, as it is likely to be for baseball historians, the 1936 World Series was a personal struggle between Hubbell and Gehrig. Lean, morose Carl Owen Hubbell is currently baseball's No. 1 Pitcher and among the half dozen ablest in the game's annals. Jolly, thick-legged Henry Louis Gehrig is the game's No. 1 batsman. Even more remarkable than the freak that made this year...
Jerome D. Greens '96, efficient director of the occasion, who will not resume his former position of Secretary to the Corporation until November, has had a chance to lean back and philosophize on the occasion. His post of Corporation Secretary has been held since last spring by George H. Chase, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology and Dean of the Graduate School of arts and Sciences...
...report as rector of Manhattan's rich old Trinity Parish, bluntly declared: "There is no part of the Church of Christ that has not failed lamentably in its witness and ministry in these recent years-the impotence of the Church is the worst failure." Remedy offered by this lean, ascetic-looking churchman: "I seriously believe the Christian Church would once again bring salvation to the world, and begin to save its own soul, if it had the wisdom and courage to declare a moratorium on preaching for a period of one or two years...
...Lean Men Ralph Bates wrote an involved and melodramatic story about the Spanish revolution, painting vivid pictures of Spanish working-class life and weakening his story with long discussions of art and philosophy. More involved than that promising first novel, The Olive Field similarly contains much that most readers will want to skip, but it also contains a narrative forceful enough to carry readers beyond dull spots, presents a general picture of revolutionary Spain that seems to square with modern Spanish history...
...portable sawmill has been set up and logs are being sledged through the snow to the railroad. By 1915 the hillside is once again bare and deserted. Fifteen years later, in Model No. 7, this twice cut-over hillside is again covered with trees but they are of a lean, weedy variety, fit only for cordwood unless drastic silviculture is practiced...