Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only under the despotism of a dictatorship does everybody or nobody vote. Normally, a shade more than 50% of the U. S. citizenry exercises its suffrage privilege. Even in the presidential landslide years of 1928 and 1932, just over 60% of qualified voters went to the polls. But lean, Lincolnesque Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace is seldom satisfied with any result short of the ideal. He did not hide his disappointment over the result of AAA's corn-hog vote, first substantial figures on which were released in Washington last week...
...April 30 et seq.). Slowly Dog No. 3 learned to crawl, sit up on its haunches, eat, bark, snap flies. Last week it was eating 12 oz. of meat per day. But it could not stand alone, did not behave like the normal mongrel terrier it had once been. Lean, jet-haired Dr. Robert E. Cornish concluded that a taste of death had irreparably injured its brain...
...Recovering from the 1932 Democratic landslide, Republican leaders marshalled nearly three times as many of their partisans to the polls as Democrats did. Defeated for renomination was Governor Comstock, sent to Ann Arbor two years ago largely because as a political "angel" he had financed his party through long lean years of defeat. Instead, Democrats chose for Governor a Detroit attorney named Arthur J. Lacy. For Senator the Democrats picked Frank A. Picard, militant New Dealer and head of the State liquor commission, to oppose Arthur H. Vandenberg, Republican incumbent...
...moment in firm accord. Any nation in accord with Hitler must chime in with his aversion to the Treaty of Versailles, the very document that re-created Poland after her 300-year subjugation. The climax of paradox was reached in Geneva last week when Marshal Pilsudski's long, lean Colonel Beck rose to make a bold declaration unique in League history and tantamount to tearing up a portion of the Treaty of Versailles...
...Lean, high-strung Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, big boss of the young Chinese Nationalist Government, worries mightily about the old Chinese virtues of his people. What time he can spare from Communism, Famine, Flood, and Japan he devotes to a moral crusade of his own invention known as the New Life Movement. Neatly codified, the N. L. M. contains such rules...