Word: leanings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their only objectives were nice views, an occasional mountain climb. Bronzed, lean Fred Dankowske finally dropped the pretense of attending to business, called no city his home...
More determined to keep their backs up are the independent pacifist organizations, whose membership is small but whose zeal for propaganda is great. Typical of these is the Fellowship of Reconciliation (8,500 members), whose vice chairman, Rev. Abraham J. Muste, is the No. 1 U. S. pacifist. Lean, sparse Preacher Muste, director of Manhattan's Labor Temple and chairman of a new United Pacifist Committee, is, as far as pure pacifism goes, a Johnny-come-lately; a Marxist, he used to advocate revolution by violence...
Since then the Newark Museum, under Director Dana's devoted successor, Beatrice Winser, has gone through lean years and come out with no activities lost. Meanwhile, the rest of the country has been catching up with it. Museum workers trained in Dana's "apprentice classes" (another first in the U. S.) have taken his fresh attack into a dozen important museums. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art has adopted a policy of exhibiting industrial design, has added architecture. Most important of all, John Cotton Dana's social philosophy of art inspired the nation's first...
Behind the creamy buff walls of the rambling Munitions Building on Washington's Constitution Avenue he finds life as he likes it. He strides down the long halls and nobody pays attention. Officers in mufti scarcely glance at his tall, lean figure, a trifle stooped; preoccupied clerks with sheaves of papers do not even look up as he goes past. In the Air Corps section on the third floor he waves a hand at flier friends, flashes a white-toothed grin, heads for his office. Hour after hour he sits earnestly in an endless succession of technical conferences, usually...
...families boasted a piano and tinkling was part of gentle breeding; second peak (343,000) in 1923, when 55% of sales were player pianos. When the industry created a taste for mechanical music, it bred the germ of its own decline. Player-piano addicts soon shifted to radios. Seven lean years and near-death followed. But meantime, radio, once the piano's ruin, gradually wakened a new public love of music. Today, piano makers are enjoying a third peak: and 5,865,000 U. S. families own pianos...