Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Auditor of Excise Taxes in the Department of National Revenue at Ottawa. An expert advocate of the Canadian sales tax who had addressed William Randolph Hearst's junketeers last year on the subject (TIME, Nov. 30), Mr. Jones traveled to Washington. There he was seen to be a lean, vigorous-looking individual with hair like Bernarr Macfadden's, features like Henry Ford's. To the Ways & Means Committee he last week explained the smooth and successful workings of Canada's 4% manufacturers' tax. The public, he said, hardly noticed it. By licensing manufacturers...
Fiery Fury. Governor Murray spruced up for the occasion. His lean wrinkled face had been shaved. His mop of thick greying hair was carefully combed. He wore a clean white shirt and his blue suit was pressed. Those who went to Collinsville to see a rustic figure in mismatched clothes and red suspenders were disappointed. But there was no disappointment in the fiery fury of the Murray speech. He began, as usual, by harking back to his early days when he was "born in a cotton patch during a November snowstorm; rocked in the cradle of adversity; chastened by hardship...
Today will be the last day of a lean exhibition of contemporary Hungarian painting at the Germanic Museum...
...often, Dr. Erskine believes, the scholar's "Spiritual aspirations which ought to lean toward the future relapse into a meticulous nostalgia." Academic life, like academic architecture is still medieval, and "it addresses itself far more often than we like to admit to the solution of other men's problems which no longer concern...
...Lean Lord Willingdon, Viceroy of India, rode to the Council House at New Delhi beneath a gold umbrella last week, opened India's Legislative Assembly with these words...