Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tried in 1938 for another Senatorial term but was beaten for the nomination by Sheridan (Up-and) Downey. McAdoo was then 75. A lean, grey wheel horse of the Democratic Party, politically swaybacked, politically a pensioner, he retired to quieter pastures. Just to keep his hand in, he assumed the chairmanship of the American President Lines...
...Cambridge beware and prepare for lean days to come! The serious attitude being adopted toward work, already noted in the Dean's report, will by that time have made Widener the favorite undergraduate nightspot, and the Reading Room will continually be as well populated as it is now before exams. The U.T., McBride's and Dirty Mary's will be things of the past, and the Stag Club will replace its bottles with books. And when the conversation at Mike's Club sounds like a seminar in Paleontology, when Phi Beta Kappa keys are as common as Coop cards, then...
Cissie Patterson's Bureau of Investigation, headed by her eye's apple, tall, lean, tough, red-haired Reporter Jimmy Cullinane, found that...
Main Event. At 12:30 the real show began. Warning was given of a squadron of dive bombers-lean, bat-winged Junkers 87B, the first to appear against the British in the Mediterranean-streaking in from the north at 18,000 feet. In an instant the Illustrious was achurn. Over the loudspeaker system brassed the marine bugler's warning, the boatswain's call: "All hands to action stations." Gun crews jumped to their pompoms. Pilots raced for their planes. Down the deck roared the first flight of Fairey Fulmar fighters, bouncing up into the sky. Behind them...
...resources, gave some $30,000 to the Freedman's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to train Negro physicians. The Society handed over the money to Central Tennessee College (Negro), which turned out its first basement-taught class of five Negro doctors in 1877. Their teacher was lean, lanky George Whipple Hubbard, who came from New Hampshire with the Union Army and a carpetbagful of good Methodist intentions. He was soon joined by a onetime Confederate Army surgeon, J. W. Sneed. Nashville ostracized both white men for years...