Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bellamy, in his book "Looking Backward," predicted that some day paper utensils would be used in cooking with electrical, heat originating on the outside of the utensil itself. Within the past year scientists have discovered a method of cooking precisely in the manner described by the lean, students New Englander...
Bishops, their elections, terms of office and retirements. Most prominent figure at the conference was Dr. John W. Perry of Tennessee, chairman of the potent Committee on Episcopacy. A lean, crisp-voiced, white-mustached, Virginia-born minister, Dr. Perry has long worked for home missions and Negro education, was once called by a well-meaning Negro pastor "a friend whose skin is white but whose heart is black...
...this time in blackest headlines he declared that New York Stock Exchange firms and members operating as individuals had made $906,000,000-"despite Depression." His report was based on answers to a questionnaire covering brokers' operations in the two fat years 1928 and 1929, the three lean years of 1930, 1931 and 1932, and the first eight months of 1933 which included the inflation boom. No less than $733,000,000 has been made in the last two years of the Bull Market when stock trading was a major U. S. industry. In 1930 total profits dropped...
Light-haired, blue-eyed, with a long, lean, handsome face, wearing grey trousers and a green varsity sweater, he strode across Dartmouth's campus from honor to honor. Each autumn he played an "iron man" game at guard on the football team, each winter swam for the varsity, each spring hurled weights on the track team. And each spring his classmates re-elected him president. In junior year he was chosen president of the junior honor society, Green...
...Glenn L. Martin Co. moved to a superb new plant near Baltimore. To finance this project the company floated a $3,000,000 bond issue. After five lean years Founder Martin realized that he must let the public into his private company as a means of meeting its maturities. The $6,000,000 Martin company has never been a gold mine. Development costs in military aviation preclude bulging surpluses. In 1927 and 1928 Martin reported annual profits of about $500,000 but in 1932 the company just broke even, last year lost $140,000. Martin entered this year with some...