Word: leans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undergraduates that professors and tutors, who are allowed to take books out for as long as they desire, subject only to an annual spring check-up by the Library, are holding books longer than they have any right to them. Although it appears beyond reasonable doubt that most professors lean over backward to return books promptly for which there has been any demand, it is nevertheless true that some instructors in the University have built up tremendous aggregations of library books in their own private quarters, and that they frown on any attempt of undergraduates to wrest away these treasures...
Basic theory of New Deal economy has been that the Federal Government should spend in lean years, save in fat ones. Last week, while many another U. S. citizen had begun to wonder whether the country was on the verge of a major business slump, the President made it clear by his saving intentions that he finally felt that the lean years were over. The week began with a new budget estimate showing a net deficit of $695,000,000 for fiscal 1938, $277,000,000 more than had been estimated last April (see p. 19). During the rest...
...After lean years come fat years. This year the land is particularly fat with corn and cotton. Last week, therefore, the corn surplus was dumped squarely on the White House portico. Heading a delegation of midwest farm leaders, President Edward A. O'Neal of the American Farm Bureau Federation informed President Roosevelt that Government corn loans of 60?-per-bu. were imperative. Said Farmer O'Neal: "The condition of farm crop prices is one reason for the stockmarket being so jittery." Both the talk of corn and the talk of jitters were advance publicity for the belated refitting...
...Henry Wallace's big, liberal heart. But through the fog of conflicting plans loomed the probability that the New Deal would ask Congress for the return of the substance of AAA, modified to include 1) Mr. Wallace's "ever normal granary" scheme of storing surpluses for lean years, 2) the better features of the soil conservation program, 3) some form of AAA's prime prop-crop control. However, supporting processing taxes would be enacted as a general tax measure, not incorporated in the program as before. With that legal weakness removed, the New Deal might risk sailing...
...then there came a time when we knew that Grandma would never see another Spring, never be able to lean out of her sunny window and spit at the children in the park again. She was growing visibly weaker, and began to miss the doctor with the chamber-pot almost every other visit. There was only one bed left in the house. And Grandpa never did come...