Word: leans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...draw from these premises any conclusions overwhelmingly complimentary to the foreign student, and disaparaging to the American. One has every reason to believe that in normal times the continental scholar was, on the whole, quite as dilatory, as indisposed to hard work, as his American counterpart. Where there were lean and hungry students there, working overtime to gain a higher education, there were also men of the same type here. But whereas conditions in the United States have been what is considered "normal" for a long time, and at present seem inclined to remain so, political and social...
...those who are beginning to put on their lean and slippered pantaloons, for those still full of wise saws and modern instances, Mr. Barry has written a book reanimating the great politicians of their younger days. It is a wandering book digressing confoundedly. The greater part of its space and the better part of its piquancy are allotted to the first two of the four decades in review. McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson pass through with dignified despatch at the end. Perhaps too many of the dramatis personae of the later acts are still living, for Mr. Barry to tell...
...Bascom Slemp, Secretary to the President, was called before the investigating committee and asked what relations he had with Edward B. Mc-Lean, ex-Secretary Fall, Sinclair or Doheny. The last two he had never met or communicated with. During the first two weeks in January while the Secretary was at Palm Beach on vacation, he had encountered Mr. McLean on the golf course. Later he had called on the McLeans and had met Mr. Fall who was visiting them. They had talked about the Volstead Act, golf, the weather, the Mellon tax plan. Teapot Dome, not then such...
...last few years have been lean ones for many of Boston's leading interests and industries. The Massachusetts cotton-spinning trade is glum, mills are closing down. The leather business has been dull for some time, shoemaking has begun to re-establish itself further west. The "coppers," Boston's favorite speculations, have also paid lean dividends, or none...
There is one major Harvard sport which has been perhaps more notable for lean years than any other during the past decade; that is track. Stars there have been scattered through the decade, but lonely stars without even good, average settings. A kind of vicious circle of cause and effect was set in motion. Harvard was not considered much of a "track" college, track was relegated to a quasi position between the major and the minor sports, and secondary school track stars were magnetized away by the prowess of Yale or Princeton or Cornell...