Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continued to point last week to His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies James Henry Thomas as the source of the Budget leak which enabled sure-thing gamblers to bilk British insurance firms of over half a million dollars (TIME, May 25). On the evening that lean, bespectacled Mr. Justice Porter & associates wound up their investigation of this breach of Cabinet confidence, Cockney Jim Thomas, onetime locomotive wiper who became the friend of kings, sat down and wrote as follows...
...lively, lean-faced, high-collared old New Englander is Porter Sargent, who as advertising and employment agent, adviser and critic, sits firmly astride the far-flung world of U. S. private secondary education. Although he has not willingly set foot in a school since, upon leaving Harvard in 1896, he taught a while at Cambridge's staid Browne & Nichols, Porter Sargent ranks today as the private school industry's No. 1 lay figure. As such, he annually delivers himself in Private Schools of a long and dogmatic preface on the worldwide State of Education, includes his sprightly...
...prospect of a U. S. housing shortage. Business recovery re-versed the short-lived back-to-the-farm trend, is now unscrambling families which doubled up for economy during Depression, has boosted the marriage rate, a fundamental real-estate statistic. The marriage rate drops far below normal in lean years, creating a "reserve" of unmarried people who hasten to the altar as soon as they can afford it. "The reserve at the present time is about three times as great as it has ever been before," says Mr. Wenzlick. "The release of only a portion of this reserve...
...Some 63,000,000 U. S. policyholders own more than $100,000,000,000 worth of insurance, which is about 70% of the world total. Only a few relatively small companies failed in the six lean years. Even in the worst years 7% of the U. S. national income was delivered into the hands of insurance companies in the form of premiums. And to the delight of all insurance salesmen the volume of new business last year set an all-time record...
...band burst into the Fascist anthem: Giovinezza! A British military band hurriedly sprayed the air with a brassy countermelody. With the little Emperor was his "good" son-in-law, Ras Desta Demtu, and Ras Kassa, who fought the Italians in the north. Sharp eyes could find no trace of lean Ras Nassibu, defender of Harar, who was last seen with the Emperor just before he sailed from Djibouti. Immediately sanguine tongues prattled that Ras Nassibu had gone back to fight some more for his country...