Word: leans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fitting of fangs to the Kellogg-Briand renunciation of war treaty-its toothless state having been remarked by many-was formally begun in the Senate by lean little Senator Capper of Kansas. He popped up with a resolution-doubt-less put in his hand by potent peace publicists-a resolution of large international implications. The idea involved was an ancient one-to get the nations to agree to lay a munitions embargo upon nations daring to violate the treaty...
Last month appeared the 1928 financial statements of many a U. S. corporation, offering stock market students an opportunity to discuss the much-debated ratio between the earnings of a stock and its market quotations. In bygone days, when bulls were not so fat and bears were not so lean, conservatives estimated that a stock which earned $10 a share should be selling at $100, or ten times its earnings-per-share. In recent years this ratio has been considered extremely backward. Thus, in March, 1928, John Jacob Raskob announced that General Motors should rise to 15 times its earnings...
...forgot, you're a poet, aren't you? Why don't you write a poem for me about our walking off like this alone and leaving it all? (No, I'd rather just lean against this big rough old tree...
With infinite trepidation the new, tenth Pius looked about for some more worldly figure on whom to lean in the grave duty of administering affairs of state. At that time young Merry del Val, only 38, had acted as secretary of the Conclave of Cardinals and was director of the Academy of Noble Ecclesiastics at Rome, where he had studied for the priesthood...
Another possibility is that the strenuous efforts made during the last few years to divert some of the flood at its source have had a tangible result. In contrast to the lean days of the past century when needy universities beat the publicity drums far and wide to attract customers to their displays of educational wares, the present attitude is distinctly diminuendo. College is a waste of time for many students; for a purely business career it has few practical uses; those who come for social reasons are an unmitigated evil. Such statements have become familiar to the reading public...