Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knows most about bark canoes this week was happily polishing off his masterpiece: a book comparing the primitive canoes of America, Australasia and Tierra del Fuego. He is grey, lean E. (for Edwin) Tappan Adney, the most distinguished resident of Upper Woodstock...
...days of consulting his family, and of sawing wood and saying little, Governor Leverett Saltonstall reported his decision to Massachusetts. He will not resign and have himself appointed to fill the U.S. Senate seat of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., now on duty as a U.S. Army major. Instead the lean, salty Governor will finish out his present job and run for the Senate in November. The Bay State applauded his decision. To keep the Senate seat warm for eleven and a half months, Governor Saltonstall then appointed his friend, Harvard classmate ('14) and townsman (Newton), balding, genial Sinclair ("Sinnie...
...self-teaching texts in 15 major fields of high-school and basic college studies. Among the topics: physics, arithmetic, geometry, algebra, shorthand, automobile mechanics, bookkeeping. Beyond the Arctic Circle, in the Southwest Pacific and in other remote posts, where the rarity of mail deliveries makes correspondence study impracticable, servicemen lean heavily on the self-teachers...
...Dean. Usafi's Colonel Franny Spaulding is a long, lean, burning enthusiast for the job of teaching soldiers. When he burns hot enough he bursts out with "Godfrey!" Sometimes he even goes as far as "Gosh!" He is one of the fastest coffee-and-sandwich racers down the illimitable corridors of Washington's Pentagon Building. A pragmatic New Englander, he was Harvard's dean of education before the Army took...
...Lean, dark George Adams, U.S. representative of the International Relief Committee, recently visited Kwangtung, told of what he had seen when he returned to Chungking last week. Said Adams...