Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this report by another, much more restricted report, outlining a specific program for preserving the advantages associated with tutorial. The aims of this program would be to enable students to develop working relationships with individual faculty members, and to encourage and guide independent work. Such a program would probably lean heavily on the Houses, which seem to be the only units small enough to deal with men out of the herd...
Like Father. The most successful of the young crop is lean, 28-year-old Dr. Gary Middlecoff, the Memphis dentist. When he gets set to hit a tee-shot, the stock gag with his fellow pros is: "This won't hurt a bit... Ouch!" He has a loose swing, hits a long straight ball, steadies down under pressure like a real pro, works well on the greens with his unorthodox putter (a gooseneck with the blade extending forward from the shaft instead of backward...
...Boston Braves, 1948 pennant winners, would lean again on the strong right arm of Johnny Sain (TIME, April 11), the best pitcher to come along since V-J day. In other camps, managers were racking their brains to plug holes in their lineups. The New York Giants had Johnny Mize and some other fence-busters, but Manager Leo Durocher was willing to put a pricetag on Mize or almost anybody else if it would bring him pitching. There seemed to be no eager bidders. No one had any marketable pitchers, and burly old (36) Johnny Mize was a property...
...There was, at that part of the cemetery wall, a lean-to erection of boards, a kind of narrow shelter, almost a man's height, and having a rough swinging door at the nearer end. It had been there before anyone could remember, and it stayed there because no one could remember to have it taken away. It was very old and very weather-stained...
Impresario Carlos Montalban, a lean, mustachioed Mexican actor-promoter (and older brother of Cinemactor Ricardo Montalban), pays his big names upwards of $10,000 a week, plus their fares from Latin America. Regardless of how much stage blood is spattered around, he woos the family trade by keeping the shows clean. (Backstage, four large signs remind the performers that the audience is "very respectable and religious...