Word: leans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cleveland, Judge Harrison W. Ewing, a rather lean, idealistic-looking married man, looked upon two applicants for divorce and refused their request. Then he said: "I shall not allow you to impose more children upon yourselves or upon society. ... I impose upon you three years of birth control." And then he added that he would help them get a divorce after three years, if they then desire it and provided they have no more children...
...came to Boston to meet an aroused Crimson six that sent the visitors down to a 5-0 defeat. Back again in Connecticut, in his own backyard, the Bulldog greased up his runners and once more pinned a 2-0 loss on the Harvard's ans, but then the lean days started again...
...with well-stuffed wallets walk into the offices of the best medical specialists, have their ills suavely diagnosed and treated, their wallets suavely deflated. Men whose purses are lean almost to nothingness walk into charity clinics and hospitals where maladies are squelched free of charge, perhaps by these same specialists, always by adepts. But what of the man whose purse is merely modest? If his ills are complex he faces a dilemma. He cannot afford to consult leading medicos; he is generally too proud to accept charity service. What he would like is a clinic where fees proportionate...
Gifford Pinchot, onetime Governor of Pennsylvania, lean and active at 63, purchased, last week, a three-masted schooner on which he will sail in March for the South Sea Islands and the Galapagos, where he will fish, observe and collect deep sea life and works. This, said Mr. Pinchot, will be the fulfillment of a dream he has dreamed since college (Yale) days. Said charming Mrs. Pinchot: ". . . Yes, Gifford should have been a doctor." Mrs. Pinchot expects to go with him on the cruise of dreams...
Today's game will be important as showing the true worth of the reserve material. Three hard games remain on the Crimson schedule and it is unlikely that the first string men lean carry the entire weight of the burden without material...