Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long, lean Harry Bridges had Hawaii tied up like a cat's cradle. Sitting in his San Francisco waterfront office 2,400 miles away, he could chuckle as Hawaii's "Big Five"-the five companies* ?which control most of the island's basic crops and business-fretted and fumed. Two strikes had done...
What was Mohamed Ali Jinnah up to? In a sharp reversal of his policy of last July the lean, leathery Moslem League leader agreed last week to nominate five men to the All-India Congress presided over by his archrival, Pandit Nehru. But he had named third-raters: in New Delhi, prominent Moslems boasted that the League had joined the coalition with the idea of breaking...
Married. Lieut. Edward John Behn (rhymes with lean), U.S.N.R., 23, aide to the Chief Allied Commissioner for Italy, son of I.T. & T.'s canny president Sosthenes Behn; and Francesca Brigida Sapuppo, 21, daughter of the late Baron . Sapuppo, onetime Italian Minister to Denmark; both for the first time; in Rome...
...first airplanes. Young Victor caught the speed fever, too. After graduating from Longfellow grade school and St. Mary's College (now the University of Dayton), he went to Cornell. But he spent less time on studies than driving around the countryside. (His taste in cars used to lean towards Rolls-Royces; now he owns a Lincoln.) When World War I came, he got his first taste of aviation as a naval aviator...
...TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE. Their staffs are among the finest of any paper or magazine in the nation. It is Mr. Luce's responsibility to see that they present the news objectively as well as readably. But we suppose that Mr. Luce, were any such proposition presented him, would lean back and jest: "What's the matter? Running...