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Word: leans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Comrade Suritz is a seasoned Soviet diplomat. He once headed a Soviet mission to Afghanistan, where he greased Afghan palms so well that that mountainous kingdom came to lean toward the Soviet Union more than toward Great Britain. Later he laid the foundation for a long Turkish-Russian friendship, and still later, Jew though he is, he became the Soviet Ambassador to the Jew-baiting Nazis. Adolf Hitler treated him with all honor, however, and modified the famed anti-Semitic Nürnberg laws so that the Ambassador could keep Aryan scrub women and maids under 45 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Minus a Member | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...being kicked up by husky moose-hunting Luther Mason Walter, operating trustee of Chicago Great Western, one of the chronically anemic roads in the great midwestern bankruptcy belt. Mr. Walter's complaint: the Midwestern roads are not getting their fair share of charges on transcontinental hauls, get a lean, unprofitable cut while the roads at the eastern and western ends take the big slices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: When If Ever a Profit? | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...lean and hungry-looking, magnetic Stalinist (but no party member...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rev. Reds | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Investigators have found that employees, who in some extreme cases have been paid only two cents an hour, have been afraid to tell of their plight out of lean of losing their jobs. "For them free speech is just an ideal dream," said the young politician...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIOT, POLAND SPEAK FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES | 11/29/1939 | See Source »

Many a U. S.. politician, fat or lean, wise or lard-headed, hit the 1940 trail last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Trail-Hitters | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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