Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good things of the U.S., the things that gave it the highest standards of living in the world, had gone to war. The luxuries were gone; some necessities were going; days lean as razorbacks were ahead. To share what was left the U.S. had two choices: it could have inflation, or it could fix prices, drain off public purchasing power and try to divide the available goods equally by ration...
Bulow's chief worry in the primaries is "Cowboy Tom" Berry, 63, who is 5 ft. 10 in. without his sombrero, weighs 195 lb. Berry is a friend of Harry Hopkins; was Governor of the State during the lean years of drought and grasshoppers. Berry has backed much of the New Deal. Also known as a South Dakota wit, Berry is needling Bulow on his pensions record...
...stage were some of the greatest of jazz improvisers: gaunt, lean-fingered "Pee Wee" Russell, famed for his hoarse clarinet tones; bobbing, supple-wristed...
Radio's annual George Foster Peabody awards, ambitiously planned by the University of Georgia's School of Journalism as the Pulitzer Prizes of radio, were conferred for the second time last week. The Peabody plaque-winner who would most have pleased the late Joseph Pulitzer was lean, long-nosed Cecil Brown of CBS (TIME, Dec. 22). His news reports from
...Lean Years. In Chicago, the American Institute of Laundering issued a plea to diners to help reduce laundering wear & tear by leaning well over the plate...