Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Final results in the PBH blood drive carried on through the Amer-lean Red Cross show that 71 Harvard men have donated blood. Dunster House leads the competition with 37 donors while Lowell is second with 18 and Adams trails with...
...White Paper accepts the idea of government deficits in lean years (which the New Deal has practiced), but sticks to budget-balancing over the trade cycle as a whole. It does not promise full employment. Instead it aims simply to "maintain" (i.e., stabilize) employment and to encourage trade expansion...
Farthest Is Nearest. Icelanders know that they must lean on a strong, good-neighborly power. The British Isles are only 700 miles away. But the U.S., whose troopships steamed 2,300 miles to Reykjavik's cobblestoned levees in 1941, is closer in other ways. Naturally Iceland does not like the presence of strangers. But the U.S. has demonstrated neighborliness by trying to keep things on a guest-&-host basis (see LETTERS). The U.S. has underwritten British obligations to Iceland to the tune of $20,000,000 annually. The U.S. pays good U.S. dollars for Iceland's fish...
...156th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (2,000,000 communicants) met in Chicago's neo-Gothic Fourth Presbyterian Church. To a jampacked audience assembled to elect his successor, lean, ascetic-looking, scholarly Henry Sloane Coffin finished his term as moderator with a slam-bang speech...
Surprisingly Georgia's conservative Senator George, chairman of the Senate's Postwar Committee, substantially agreed. Said he: "What we have tried to do in our agricultural and tax legislation is quite capable of application to the worker. . . . I think we ought to lean toward something like the annual-wage idea...