Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course of Advanced Engineering will concentrate primarily on Civil while the Basic course will lean somewhat towards communications. Instruction in both courses will come from the Graduate School of Engineering. The Foreign Area and Language students will study under the staff of the Overseas Administrators' School as the present group is doing
Hardy Abe. Lincoln, the son of a lean, tired mother, was conceived during a bitter rainy spell at the end of an unusually hard Kentucky winter. All this, says Petersen, predisposed him to a lanky figure, active metabolism, fickle blood pressure and extreme sensitiveness to the environment. In the harsh winters of the Kentucky and Illinois wilderness, he grew up with strong inhibitions (developed to conserve his physical strength), tired, moody, sensitive to the weather and to men. In his sex life he was by turns passionate (he "could scarcely keep his hands off [women]") and inhibited. But the weather...
...three major generals commanding infantry divisions, the best known is Terry de la Mesa Allen, leader of the 1st, only division in the Seventh Army that fought the Germans and Italians before Sicily. Lucian K. Truscott Jr. of the 3rd Infantry is a hell-roaring cavalryman, tall, lean, wiry. He developed U.S. Ranger tactics in England, accompanied a unit of Canadian Commandos on the bloody Dieppe Raid...
...radio's multitude of voices, one of considerable authority was added last week: the plain, human voice of long, lean, earnest Hanson W. Baldwin (TIME, Nov. 9), the New York Times's ace military reporter and critic. Baldwin took to the air for the Blue Network on a one-a-week sustainer (Sun., 3:15-3:30, E.W.T.). He is available to any sponsor who thinks that Baldwin is worth the Blue's asking price...
...Lean, quiet Ross Munro (Canadian Press), one of the best of all war reporters, went in with the Canadians and scooped the world. His copy, filed via Malta and London, was the first eyewitness story out of Sicily. It beat every U.S. correspondent by hours. Canadians, recalling how the Hearst press misplayed the Dieppe raid (which Munro covered) as an American adventure, felt compensated...