Word: leans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hurried inquiries had been sent to the State Department's Division of Protocol & Conferences, which stipulated morning coats, long-sleeved and high-necked frocks. Many a great lady got a new thrill as she curtsied, kissed the Cardinal's ring. For everyone present well knew that this lean, smiling Italian prelate may well be the next Pope...
Tennessee's boars, descended from Russian stock imported and freed by South Carolina planters some three decades ago, bear about the same relation to domestic pigs as a Tasmanian bushman bears to a Tammany district leader. Lean and muscular, weighing 150 to 400 lb., the boars' chief characteristics are great speed, ferocious courage, dagger-sharp tusks which can rip a dog or man to tatters. Tennessee mountaineers rate them more dangerous than bears. A Cherokee Forest ranger lately failed to stop one with ten bullets, escaped with his life only because his dog diverted the charging beast...
...ends left on the field, under the stands, and on the seats, has grown less and less arduous. Bottles are placed in the middle of the huge pile of programs and labels burned off. Amid the popping of corks and the vaporization of many dregs, the maintenance men lean on their rakes and size up the visiting team from the size and quality of its "bottled goods...
Only one crackerjack new cartoonist has emerged in the campaign, and only one crackerjack new cartoon character. The first created the second. Early in the year, lean, bushy-haired Clarence Daniel Batchelor sat down at his board in the New York News office, drew a petulant, pot-bellied little man, naked except for a silk hat, labeled him "Old Deal." This character, funny yet forceful, caught the public fancy at once, grew famed when Cartoonist Batchelor pictured him perched pensively on a rock high over Washington, reflecting, "Gawd, how I hate his guts." Since then "Old Deal" has boasted, blustered...
Hull: The duty reduction was limited to a number of animals amounting to only ¼of 1% of the U. S. consumption. The prices which fell were mostly those of fat cattle, while imports from Canada are mainly lean cattle...