Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Celebrating both its 20th anniversary and the return to his desk after three years with OWI of lean, energetic, discerning Founder-President Harold Guinzburg, Manhattan's distinguished Viking Press memorably advertised...
Jimmy Byrnes had gone home to Spartanburg, S.C., but at the call of President Truman he hurried back to Washington. Before he had been back twelve hours, politicos were tagging him as the man Harry Truman would lean on as adviser on foreign affairs (see INTERNATIONAL). Many of them were ready to bet that before long Jimmy Byrnes would replace Ed Stettinius as Secretary of State...
...Pauley. hustling treasurer of the Democratic National Committee; or John Wesley Snyder, rotund, 48-year-old St. Louis banker, close friend of the President, former executive vice president and director of the Defense Plant Corp. in Jesse Jones's RFC. (Snyder, said Washington speculation, might first become Federal Lean Administrator, succeeding Fred Vinson...
...cost Pan Am so much more to fly its planes, Damon could not say. He guessed: "It is the difference in philosophy, of being fat and complacent as a monopoly versus being . . . lean and hungry as a competitor...
...world's swiftest sprint swimmer lost in the National A.A.U. Indoor championships. In the 100-yd. freestyle, record-smashing Columbia Midshipman Alan Ford (TIME, Feb. 26) tried hard to shake off lean-jawed Specialist 2/C Wally Ris, onetime mechanical engineering student at the University of Illinois. He got no farther than a half-stroke ahead in three laps. Then they both flubbed the all-important last turn, squared away even for the final spurt. Whispered 21-year-old Wally to himself: "Beat him . . . beat him." He did-by a touch, and in New York A.C. pool-record time...