Word: leans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Missouri Pacific years ago was a "Gould road," and a link in the ambitious transcontinental railway system from the Atlantic to the Pacific which both Jay and George Gould projected. When, after 1907, this plan collapsed, "Mop" fell upon some lean years. Now the great southwestern merger, which it heads, promises to realize partially, yet in fact, the dreams which the Goulds had of its future...
Importance makes faces grave; work makes them lean; gazing at mysteries gives them a sober cast. At Cornell University, Ithaca, a group of men gathered. Their faces were grave, lean, sober; they were the members of the American Chemical Society, assembled for their 68th Annual Convention. Two qualities they all had in common. One was a profound concern with the wonders that beset men's comings and goings, traffics and discoveries, on the earth. The other was renown. They deliberated, debated, uttered paragraphs of chemical formulae that were, when understood, criticism, gasconade and prophecy. Sometimes the summer lightning...
Faces grave, lean, sober...
...Southampton, L. I., other pilgrims found Black Panther Wills looking lean, lithe and dangerous. He had been training by running six miles a day up and down the ocean sands; by flailing and stabbing at two sparring partners whose weights aggregated 430 pounds; by keeping quiet, eating much, saying little. In Wall Street, Manhattan, moneyed men laid their wagers upon Firpo or Wills in the ratio...
...poor farmers can find $25,000,000 in their overall pockets worn full of many holes during lean years...