Word: leans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Diskonto Gesellschaft is one of the four great "D. Banks" of Germany, which include the Deutsche, Dresdener and Darmstaedtner Banks. Before and during the War this potent fiscal quadrangle stood four-square in dominance of German industry. For one of the "D. Banks" to be thus forced to lean on foreign capital would have been deemed incredible...
...Detroit, one Joe Jordan, apartment-house janitor, said to his lean-ribbed daughter Mae, last September: "You git some money! You're 14 now. You work or you don't eat here...
...taught him letters, gave him a Phi Beta Kappa key; Harvard schooled him in law. Said he, "But I never intended to practice. I only studied law so as to better understand the system. I wanted to know all the tricks of the capitalists." Suddenly this lean dynamo broke from obscurity, captured the hearts of Hungarians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Croatians, Lithuanians, just plain Russians, Italians; organized their strike. His United Front Committee has kept the strikers alive and united, built playgrounds for the children, stood firm on its terms of settlement in the face of numerous idealistic...
...morning down Washington's broad, smug streets glide sleek gleaming Rolls-Royces, lean sport cars, great grey-lined limousines. Liveried chauffeurs pull up gracefully in front of buildings gay or sombre with grey, blue, green, yellow, black, purple, red-flags of varied designs. Out step pompous diplomats, flick imaginary dust from immaculate morning coats, stride self-conciously up their embassy walks with top-hats a-glinting in the morning sun. Ah!-to be a diplomat! Last week Don Juan Riano y Gayangos, dean* of all Washington diplomats, Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Most Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII...
...ulein Lucker, robust, buxom, was paired in climbing with a lean, nervous youth, her fiance. With pick and pole and hatchet the party labored upward. Suddenly a blinding Alpine snow storm swept upon them, continued for 24 hours...