Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magic was in evidence. Up the street from the red brick bulk of Barracks "E"; marched the battalion of the Candidates' Class, its green-clad legs chiming as smoothly as the blades of a mowing machine. At each group's head marched Marine lieutenants, on their flanks lean-hipped sergeants with scarlet-backed chevrons and hashmarks, marksmanship medals glinting in the sunlight. Every man in the smartly uniformed ranks was a private, first class...
...getting. This would be a sounder solution of B.C.'s problem than the proposed Boston municipal stadium, "The Beanbowl." Harvard, too, would gain. Without any increased emphasis on the brawny side of college life, the H.A.A. could get a golden nest-egg to tide the athletics program through the lean days ahead...
From the day he got his feathers Gimpy was a superior bird. Master Sgt. Clifford Algy Poutre, the lean, leathery boss pigeon man at the Signal Corps pigeon lofts on the Jersey flats at Fort Monmouth, liked to say that the Army would hear from Gimpy some day. His breed was right. His father, old red Kaiser, captured in a German trench in the Argonne, is still the oldest military pigeon in the business (24 last month), and his Scotland-hatched mother had good blood...
Bread is Spain's great problem, and bread to keep the people from starving is going to Spain through the British blockade, both from the U. S. and from Argentina. Much as General Franco may lean toward Germany and Italy ideologically, for the moment food is as important to him as friendship. He hoped his good friend II Duce understood that...
...Fritz Lang, Western Union has the same swift pace and scenic beauty that distinguished John Ford's Stagecoach two years ago. The players are uniformly ingratiating-including Robert Young as a brash young tenderfoot from Harvard who finally avenges Vance's death. But acting honors go to lean, tall (6 ft. 2 in.) Randy Scott, who in Western Union plays his 18th Zane Grey character, looks more than ever like a 1941 Bill Hart. Virginia-born, educated at swank Woodberry Forest School and the University of North Carolina, Actor Scott was once called by Zane Grey "the perfect...