Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your issue of July 12 describes Keyes Metcalf as ''lean, reserved, thoroughly professional...
...reserved; I am sure he is thoroughly professional, but lean does...
...light summer reading was the 450,000-word document which President Roosevelt took with him last fortnight on his weekend cruise down the Potomac. The bulky treatise was entitled Technological Trends and National Policy, Including the Social Implications of New Inventions. Under the direction of lean-jawed Sociologist William Fielding Ogburn of the University of Chicago, the report had been prepared by a subcommittee of the science committee of the National Resources Committee. Last week with considerable fanfare and President Roosevelt's blessing it was made public...
Famed as the most harmonious commission in Washington, the five commissioners lean heavily on such loyal staff members as Chief Counsel William Thomas Kelley, a hulking, red-faced lawyer who booms and beats the table and has been with FTC from the start, more than 20 years ago; his chief assistant, Armand De Birney, onetime ace investigator for the Veteran's Bureau; Economists Francis Walker, jovial Willis Jerome Ballinger and Corwin D. Edwards. Assistant to the chairman and the FTC's pressagent is Joe Baker, tall, slim, leathery, onetime...
...patrons think and that it is not run by a professional librarian. Last week the second of these peculiarities disappeared as Historian Robert Pierpont Blake announced that he was turning over his job as director to Keyes Metcalf, Chief of the Reference Department of the New York Public Library. Lean, reserved, thoroughly professional Librarian Metcalf, 47, who will also serve as college librarian, began his career as a page in the Oberlin College Library and graduated in 1914 from the New York Public Library training school. Broad, boy-faced Amateur Blake, 50, wants more time for Byzantine history...