Word: leans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East Texas soil. Natural gas heated the individual classroom radiators in the Consolidated School. Whether it had leaked, in its odorless and highly explosive form, from a radiator or whether it had seeped into the unfinished school basement from the soil, no one seemed to know. The superintendent, a lean Texan of 61, sleepless and stunned by the death of his own 17-year-old son Sam, had no explanation...
...office last week, swaying the lives of at least a half-million other men, shaping the destiny of the whole U. S. One of them, dynamically champing a stogie, was Benjamin Franklin Fairless, a dark, stocky, kinetic corporation executive. The other, suavely puffing a cigaret, was Philip Murray, a lean, grey, scholarly labor leader. When their first talk was over the Labor Leader cried, and no impartial observer disputed him: "This is unquestionably the greatest story in the history of the American Labor movement...
Died. Everett Andrew Colson, 50, lean Yankee lawyer, loyal Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs & Minister of Finance in Ethiopia (1930-36) ; after two months' illness; in Washington. Paid $9.000 a year and his living, Brain-Truster Colson shrewdly directed Emperor Haile Selassie's appeals to the League of Nations against Italian invasion, after Addis Ababa had fallen went to Geneva to plead Ethiopia's cause as the first U. S. citizen seated in the League as a foreign delegate...
Coming out about as had been expected, the Varsity track team finished last in the Quadrangular meet Saturday night at the Garden, and forcibly impressed on the Crimson follower used to good track teams that this is indeed a lean year...
...statement was only partially true. Lean, sober-faced Georgia O'Keeffe is far better known to the general public than most of the other artists under the protective wing of her dealer husband, but to Miss O'Keeffe's embarrassment, every time a showing of her paintings is held, it attracts half the amateur theosophists, swamis, faith healers and founders of new cults in Manhattan, anxious to read hidden meanings into her brilliantly colored, smoothly painted studies of skulls, feathers, roses, bones, morning glories and strange black crosses. In the new paintings exhibited last week, Artist...