Word: leans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wood-burner chuffed into Smith's Creek station, laboriously pulling its coaches. Out of one coach was helped a shag-browed, stooped old man. He eyed the station signboard, recalled his onetime precipitous arrival at the same platform, smiled ruefully. He was Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. Nearby a lean, keen-eyed man stood beaming. He it was who had staged this performance. From afar he had brought the properties-the locomotive, cars and station.* Into the deaf inventor's ear he shouted welcome.† He was Friend Henry Ford. This was only Stage-Setter Ford's prolog...
...shares. To conservative Boston bankers the new bear is not familiar. To traders and speculators he is known as William H. ("Bill") Danforth, believed to be the biggest speculator in Boston and recently to have descended in person upon Manhattan. Aged 43, he is tall, lean, Indian-like. Legend says that during some 20 years of speculating he has four times pyramided a $1,000 stake to $500,000, and lost it. Since July, Bear Danforth has clawed feverishly, often turning from bear tactics to buy a stock for a quick play. Although new Danforth fortunes...
Kabul grew too hot last week for gleaming-eyed, white-tusked King Habibullah, the savage onetime bandit who last winter wrested Afghanistan's throne from weak, well-meaning little King Amanullah (TIME, Jan. 28). All through the summer, Usurper Habibullah has been harassed by the lean, ruthless, white-chinned Nadir Khan, ill-famed for boiling his captured enemies in oil (TIME, Sept. 2). Last week Nadir converged three armies of overwhelming might upon Kabul. Prudent Habibullah fled in an airplane to escape being French-fried. Without resistance the city fell. Since victorious Nadir was once a general...
...Wann, Okla., Rancher Al Gottlieb told how his pastures were parched with drought, how his 500 steers refused to eat the yellow grass, became lean. He went to Kansas City, said he bought 500 pairs of green goggles, fitted them on the steers. Then they ate ravenously, grew...
...60th Division, some with their legs in the road and their heads in the ditch, twisted into ghastly contortions, utterly exhausted, racked with malaria and dysentery. With us marched our comrades of Allenby's Desert Mounted Corps, the many regiments of Australian Light Horse, regiments of lean gaunt men from whose lives pestilence had exacted more than wounds and trench warfare...