Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lean and leather-tough Joe Burke has spent 40-odd years hunting gold. As a $250-a-month prospector (employed by Toronto's Rush Lake and Berwick Mining Companies), he was in the Mackeith Lake country last June with a young Indian helper named Maynard Bromley. One hot day they worked their way through the virgin timberland around the lake, scrambling over fallen firs and through heavy underbrush. Ahead they saw a mound heavily covered with northern moss...
...good spots to shinny over the fence. The horseshoe-shaped concrete stadium was set to house global tennis again, with French, British and Australian accents. Inside the West Side Tennis Club's 11½acres, a kind of F. Scott Fitzgerald wonderland of pretty girls in shorts and lean, athletic men, the primping and preening went...
Western Reserve's 28th headmaster, John W. Hallowell, 37, has a lot in common with a fellow Harvardman, Phillips Exeter's new Principal William G. Saltonstall, 40 (TIME, June 17). Both are tall (6 ft. 3 in.) and lean, with rugged Yankee faces. At Harvard they won crew and hockey letters, went on to teach at prep schools (Hallowell at Groton, Saltonstall at Exeter). Both served in the Pacific, ended up as lieutenant commanders...
...days later deputy sheriffs touched him hard. They arrested the operators of his water taxis. Hundreds of people were marooned all night on the ship, had to lean dismally against the walls because there were few chairs. Stralla, unruffled, gave himself up, stood chewing grapes while being charged with criminal conspiracy. He hoped the judge would restrain his tormentors. But the judge ruled against...
What further spread the grin on the lean, long face of Bill Allen, who took over his job last fall during Boeing's dark days, was his unshakable belief that the Stratocruiser is the big commercial plane of the immediate future. Reasons...