Word: leaned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after eight events. Stanford's total went up as the field event results became final. After 13 events, the score was 42 to 42, with one more race to run. It was the 200-metre final. No Stanford sprinter had qualified and all Southern California's lean, blond, curly-headed Charley Parsons-son of Coach Dean Cromwell's college and teammate Charles B. Parsons-needed was a fifth place in the six-man race. The runners crouched at the start. The field spread going away from the mark and drove into the straightaway with Howard Jones...
...metre race, Ryan held on. finally passed McCluskey 250 yards from the finish, went on to win by 25 yards. ¶ Pennsylvania's Bill Carr, still on crutches after his automobile accident two months ago (TIME, March 27), saw Jimmy LuVallé, a lean Negro from the University of California at Los Angeles, win the 400-metre final in 46.7 - time that approached Carr's supposedly unapproachable world's record of 46.2 in last summer's Olympics...
...North German Lloyd's Europa in 1930. The second was to beat the Conte di Savoia's own record of six days and twelve hours from Genoa to Ambrose Channel Lightship. Five days and 20 hours later Captain Lena was a happy man. His long, lean, white ship had averaged only 27.4 knots from Genoa to the lightship, one-half knot slower than the Europa's best average, but she had beaten her own Genoa-Ambrose record by 16 hours...
...descriptions of the inquest of the shark-killed boatman. Miss Harding flew for Hollywood, heavily veiled, after providing a $25-a-month pension for the boatman's widow. Only briefest mention was given another ship far more important to every Cuban, the United Fruit liner Peten carrying lean young Benjamin Sumner Welles from "New York to his post as U. S. Ambassador to Cuba...
Mile run--Won by R. S. Playfair (H); second, L. C. Lean (H); third, I. H. Orr (H). Time...