Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Observers agreed that these two cards had been shoved up the President's sleeve by Vice Chancellor von Papen. At the week's end lean-jawed Lieut.-Colonel von Papen was fighting hard for yet another check on the Nazis: the vital post of Prussian Premier. He was holding his own at the week's end. Chancellor Hitler let it be known that the Premiership would not be definitely awarded for some time yet; possibly until after...
...actual self-assertion; and instead of being springy and recalcitrant in the hand, it is entirely pleasant and manageable. Moreover, it has come down to sordid matters of economics and succeeds in giving the buyer what appears to be his money's worth, for the first time in a lean and sheaf-like decade...
...walls, asbestos composition. Six unskilled workmen assembled it in a month. Its total cost, with heat, light and plumbing installed: $3,500. It is a product of American Homes, Inc. of New York which now offers a "line" of four prefabricated models costing up to $7,200. Architect is lean, towering Robert W. McLaughlin Jr. of the New York firm of Holden, McLaughlin & Associates. Designer of swank country homes for the well-to-do, Architect McLaughlin has turned enthusiastically to prefabrication as a solution not only of the U. S. housing problem but of the U. S. architect...
...schedule by beating Cornell, 46 to 22. There have been five play-offs since the league was formed in 1902; Princeton has been in all of them. Last year an underrated Princeton team thrashed Columbia for the title. Experts have not underrated Coach Fritz Crisler's long lean forwards, Ken Fairman and John Seibert, this season. They are the high scorers of a team which often plays lazy basketball but which beat league-leading Yale 46 to 26 last fortnight...
...lieutenant of field artillery cited by General Pershing for bravery. Home and married, he took to citrus ranching, first tasted public life in the Arizona Legislature, got himself elected to Congress as his State's lone Representative in 1926. This week he rounded out his third term. A lean, wiry youngster with a quick grin and a ready tongue, Representative Douglas shot up to a commanding Democratic position in the House in six short years. On the Appropriations Committee he made a detailed study of Governmental machinery. He pitched House Democrats to victory in their annual ball game with...