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Word: leanness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...displayed far less anxiety about that than she did last week about whether Germany might default. But the Wall Street crash has raised doubts as to whether U. S. investors can be depended on to hold the German bag-full or empty as the future will reveal. Last week lean, jocular Melvin Alvah Traylor, President of The First National Bank of Chicago, and quiet, thickset Jackson Eli Reynolds, President of First National Bank of New York, were on the Atlantic en route to tell the statesmen at The Hague what can be expected from U. S. investors. Mr. Reynolds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: New Big Three | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

With their ultimatum in effect rejected, the Indian National Congress was at zero hour last week when Mr. Gandhi, attended by ascetic gentlemen in white loin cloths and lean ladies in pink girdles, squatted down cross-legged on the rostrum and announced that the executive committee of the Congress had adopted unanimously his draft Declaration of Independence and would put it to vote after suitable debate. As the debate began, the weather turned bitter cold. Mr. Gandhi drew a piece of cloth over his shoulders and sat quiet, knitting something woolen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Declaration of Independence | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

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