Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This situation has developed with the depression. The tutorial system was instituted during the flush '20's when money flowed freely and waste was permissible. High calibre men were hired in the enthusiasm of the moment. Now the picture has changed with the lean years, and Harvard cannot easily support such an expensive educational plant. Shifts in fields of concentration have only complicated matters...
...with a marked rise in the marriage rate. Both boost the demand for living quarters, inspiring landlords to raise rents when leases expire and encouraging them to hold out for their asking price instead of accepting the first bid, as they were only too glad to do during the lean years...
...Capital still had their rifles, bags of dried peas and the capacity to put up a fight. In the south things were different. The bloodiest battle of the entire War was raging last week around a collection of water holes and mud huts known as Sassa Baneh. There lean, wily Ras Nassibu had stationed legions of his best men, entrenched in an elaborate series of fortifications dug under direction of the onetime Turkish General Wehib Pasha. Four columns under General Graziani were attempting to surround the town, batter it to submission. Charging again & again through thorn bushes and over huge...
...Lean, birdlike Mrs. Anthony Eden made one of her extremely rare public appearances last week. To the members of the Conservative Women's Society, the wife of Britain's Foreign Minister declared: "I find myself with a husband who is working 16 hours a day. A lull in all the hurly-burly of international politics would be very welcome to me for it has made a diplomacy widow...
...great, white stairs of Government House stood the retiring Viceroy, long-jawed, lean Freeman Freeman-Thomas, first Earl of Willingdon. Again 31 guns crashed out as Lord Linlithgow shook hands with Lord Willingdon, went inside for a long talk. Before Lord Linlithgow could become the new Viceroy, the old Viceroy must quit India. This Lord Willingdon proceeded to do next day, accompanied by a send-off precisely paralleling Lord Linlithgow's welcome...