Word: leans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month ago Pitcher Carl Hubbell, lean left-hander of the New York Giants, pitched an 18-inning game against the St. Louis Cardinals which the Giants won. 1 to 0. That was enough to make 1933 a memorable season for Pitcher Hubbell but he was not satisfied. Last week, in the fourth inning of a game between Boston and the Giants, he had a chance to break the National League record of 44 consecutive scoreless innings, made by Pitcher Ed Reulbach of the Chicago Cubs in 1908. The first batter hit a fly. Next man up was Wally Berger...
...Leaving Buckingham Palace after a late chat with George V last week, lean, purposeful U. S. Conference Delegate Key Pittman found himself marooned in the palace courtyard. The tall iron gates were locked. The imposing Grenadier Guards in their massive bearskin hats refused to do any unlocking. Senator Pittman pleaded to be let out. After long argument, the Grenadier Guards, still unable to comprehend why Delegate Pittman should not have been called for by his own car if he really was a person of such importance, grudgingly let him escape and hail a taxi...
...people will decide-and that mighty soon--whether Franklin D. Roosevelt will go down in history as great or well-intentioned. Hence the great publicity or propaganda campaign--outdoing, it is hoped, the Liberty Lean drives--that is almost upon us. If the people are with you, that is success--legal, political, and historical...
...human comparisons over 3.000 years. She has all kinds of mice-albinos, red mice, Japanese dancing mice, etc., etc. And she can make any sort of mice to order-mice that will live three years (average age: six months), mice that will be obese and mice that will be lean, mice of any color...
Other reducers: Bandman Paul Whiteman shrivelled from 293 Ib. to 189 lb. in one year. He started with a diet of grapefruit juice and green vegetables, and no liquor. For breakfast he had black coffee and grapefruit juice; for lunch some greens, but no dressing; for dinner lean meat and a green vegetable. One day a week his menu was composed entirely of starches and sweets...