Word: leans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long and lean, a single white spire fights its way through the trees in Hanover. New Hampshire, to tell the world that a college shivers beneath it. Visitors descending from the rim of hills need only follow this barren beacon to find the cloisters that are Dartmouth, and once there, to help them understand the uniqueness of the country's loneliest college...
...Harvard professor's long literary voyage. "Now that the outward passage is ended," he says comfortably, "we shall be homeward bound shortly." After Volume XIV, tentatively titled The Liquidation of the Japanese Empire, Morison expects to put into port at 71, a reasonable retirement age for a lean Yankee seafarer (who was officially retired this summer as a reserve rear admiral...
When a final fix by the astronomers placed the center in Farmer Carl Daymen Snider's cornfield, well-wishers came from all directions. Snider, a lean, tanned 33-year-old son of the soil, took it calmly: "I ain't overly worked up about it." said he. When he was asked if his family would pose before a camera, he said: "The woman may take the shotgun...
Oliver Twist. Director David (Great Expectations) Lean's brilliant adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel; with Alec Guinness, John Howard Davies, Robert Newton (TIME...
This year's Fall Reading Period will last only ten days, but harried students have only the Gregorian calendar to blame, Registrar Sargent Kennedy explained yesterday. It seems the length of the pre-exam respite undergoes cyclic variations, and the lean years have...