Word: leanings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disease, and either give up their amateurism or forget about big-time football. From Harvard's experience, there is no such "trend" in evidence. As a matter of fact, every Harvard game this fall has drawn a somewhat bigger crowd than the H.A.A. expected. Princeton may be having a lean year, but there is no widespread dissatisfaction among amateur football teams which could satisfy Nassau's prophecy of doom...
...Take It With You, grossed around $2,000,000 in Manhattan and on tour, showed almost $1,000,000 clear profit. Since Kaufman has a cut in his shows as well as royalties from them, he has made a small fortune on hit after hit. There have been lean seasons, even bad ones. But in a big year he makes easily...
...finish-post was passed, Jockey Key Pittman of Nevada neatly unhorsed himself with the flat pronouncement that he did not expect Franklin Roosevelt to proclaim defined combat areas (next day the President did). Nothing dashed by this tumble, the lean Nevadan mounted again on the most improbably romantic idea of the week: that U. S. ships are to be provided with distinctive markings for each side: that the Germans would be advised of the markings on one side, while the Allies would be told of the other. The markings, said Mr. Pittman gravely, would be visible for five miles. Further...
...oddity few Atlantic readers were likely, in the flesh, to attain. It was therefore not surprising that the book to win, over 600-odd contenders, the Atlantic's $5,000 non-fiction contest for 1939, should be an account of what-life-has-been-like for the long, lean, lemon-tongued, ladylike U. S. wife of British H. G. Keith, Conservator of Forests and Director of Agriculture of North Borneo...
...tall, lean, sad-eyed man sat at his desk last week in his summer palace at Castel Gandolfo near Rome. Before him was the text of a 13,000-word document which he had written and re-written three times in longhand. Pope Pius XII made some final corrections, sent the document off to the Vatican printers. It was his first encyclical, long delayed by the seismic events of World War II. Non-Catholics as well as Catholics waited to hear it as the keynote of the Holy Father's reign. Two days later the encyclical, entitled, from...