Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last time Jones was pressed was when playing lean, impassive George Voigt, best iron-shot maker of U. S. amateurs but a short driver, whose amateur standing was once questioned by the U. S. G. A. on the suspicion that he was giving golf lessons to his Washington, D. C. employer. Jones missed a five-foot putt on the 8th, another at the 10th and cut his drive into a whin at the 12th. Voigt was two up. Here Voigt began to slip. He drove out of bounds and lost the 15th. At the Railway Hole he played into Principal...
...when Alexander Mitchell Palmer was attorney general of the U. S. has the Federal Government hunted Reds. Because overt radical agitation and the economic condition of the nation follow the same cycle. Communist leaders in the last fat prosperous decade have starved politically out of public sight. The last lean year has brought them suddenly to the surface, to gorge themselves on hard times, to feast on unemployment, to stage Red demonstrations throughout the land. Alarmed by the spectre of radical resurgence, the House of Representatives last week voted (210-to-18) to start a Red hunt...
Scientists agree that locusts do not start to migrate because they are hungry. Indeed each locust eats comparatively little on the migratory flight, consumes much of its own fat, arrives lean but wrought up to the highest amorous pitch. Authorities now propound the theory that the locust migrations are a sexual manifestation, as though Mother Nature employed this spur to spread her grasshopping children as far and wide as possible...
...lean pitcher of the Providence team got into trouble on several occasions but when a crisis arose he was always master of the situations in the seventh when Harvard had three men on and only one out Sondheim got Nugent on a pop to center-field and then fanned McGrath. The Bruins twirler was also mainly responsible for his own team's runs driving in two of the three tallies...
...short stories in his spare time. In 1917 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his play, Why Marry? In 1921 he was elected president of the Authors' League of America. Careful writer, Author Williams wrote She Knew She Was Right four times. His quizzical, seamed face and long, lean figure were always familiar sights in Princeton; for many years he made it his home. During a visit to Herkimer, N. Y., last September, he died. He was 58. Other books: Princeton Stories; The Stolen Story; The Adventures of a Freshman; New York Sketches; The Day-Dreamer; My Lost Duchess...