Word: leanness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last three years California's Stanford University has scouted high & low for a new president to succeed long, lean Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, 67. Last week it announced the choice: tall, tanned, tactful Donald Bertrand Tresidder...
...Army sent a seasoned veteran to carry on the fight: tall, lean, 53-year-old Major General Alexander McCarrell Patch Jr. Born into the Army (at Fort Huachucua, Ariz.) West Pointer Patch had long been in command in New Caledonia, where he learned jungle fighting and taught it to his troops...
Youngest is Lieut. Colonel Chesley Gordon Peterson, 22-year-old executive operations officer of the Army Air Corps' Fourth Group in Britain. A tall, lean, hay-haired farm boy from Santaquin, Utah (pop. 1,115), he has been fighting in the air for nearly three years, has flown in battle across the Channel more than 100 times. Thrown out of the U.S. Air Corps when his age was discovered, he enlisted with the R.A.F. a year and four months before Pearl Harbor, left for England on his 20th birthday. He led the R.A.F.'s First Eagle Squadron...
...these the Army is proud. But it is proudest of its OCS graduates. It was on its enlisted soldiers, volunteers and draftees that the growing Army had to lean for its supply of younger officers. The success of the taut training they absorbed can be proved to old soldiers by their progress. One is already a lieutenant colonel, seven are majors, 397 are captains...
...lean years losses totaled about $250,000. Both the Chinese and Japanese Governments frequently tried to win the Post's support by subsidy; Starr and Gould always retorted: "We'll quit publishing first!" Wang Ching-wei, head of the Japanese-supported regime in Nanking, once futilely ordered Starr and Gould deported. Through it all, by sticking rigidly to their pledge to "follow the American newspaper tradition of free speech," Starr and Gould finally lifted their fledgling publication into the black. By Dec. 7, 1941, they were averaging $35,000 a year net profit...