Word: leanings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lean, stiletto-nosed John Bowman was a shy, dreamy boy. At 7 he resolved: "I would be a poet. I would always feel beautiful inside and be large and kind and beneficial and be honored and do good." At Columbia University, where he went to teach English after graduation from University of Iowa, Dr. Bowman charmed Andrew Carnegie and Nicholas Murray Butler, who made him secretary of the Carnegie Foundation. In 1911, at 34, he went back to University of Iowa as its president, resolved to make it the "Athens of the West." But he failed to get along with...
...wholly pleased by the proceedings was Lawyer Key's lean and leathery great-grandson, Lieut. Colonel Francis Scott Key-Smith, who hyphenates his name "because there are so darn many Smiths." Pleased was he that a painting of his ancestor, peering through dawn's early light, was unveiled in Fort McHenry by Mrs. Reuben Ross Holloway, the tireless patriot who in 1931 helped make The Star-Spangled Banner the official as well as the actual national anthem. But so ill-pleased was he by the political overtones of an address by Presidential Aspirant Paul V. McNutt that...
Among the first signs of war in most European cities were lean newspapers. Stripped of their usual verbiage, they were cut down to eight or twelve or 16 pages, in Poland to one sheet. Object (see p. 19): to save newsprint. Many a U. S. publisher, watching his circulation figures soar as fat editions pushed each other off his presses, wondered if presently he too might not feel a paper shortage, followed by rising prices. In World War I newsprint went from $40 a ton to a 1920 peak...
...jobs, new jobs for old hands abounded, as Franklin Roosevelt began to make over his Government to wartime specifications. Changes extended from the Cabinet (see p. 9) down to bureaus where the urgencies of peace-in-war abruptly supplanted the routines of peace. Great was the demand for lean fellows, hungry for action. Under the new faces which went to Washington appeared hardly a single paunch...
Palestine's troubles this summer shattered the eucalyptus-shaded calm of Tabgha Hospice. Tourists kept away, and times became lean for businesslike Father Täpper. Worse, he had a cancer, was operated on at Tiberias. Last month Father Tapper made ready to retire to the land where he was born some 60 years ago. World War I he had escaped. Last week Father Täpper was due in Cologne, in his native Rhineland, to rest his old bones-just as the French and German guns began their restless muttering along the Western Front...