Word: leaned
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Somewhere in the next years-when Coolidge and Hoover gave him high position-the mantle of elder statesman began to settle imperceptibly around Henry Stimson's lean shoulders. He shared and symbolized the nation's ideals and hopes ("the only deadly sin I know is cynicism," he once wrote). Always above petty intrigues, he was by then broader than politics, and wiser than the current clich...
...Moral Responsibility of the Scientist" will be debated at a Law Forum Friday by Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, Norbert Wiener of M.I.T., Lean Sxilard of the University of Chicago, and Henry D. Aiken '40, associate professor of Philosophy. Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory, will preside at the meetings at 8 p.m. in Rindge Tech...
...farm in Deny, N.H. and turned him loose. For twelve years, while Elinor bore children,-Frost raised chickens, taught school, battled the grudging soil, fought back encroaching witch grass and sheep laurel. Working long after the children were in bed and the chores done, he slowly wrung out a lean, spare and personal idiom...
...Lean, lithe Dr. Selye has a seemingly inexhaustible fund of energy. His six-volume Encyclopedia of Endocrinology, which took 15 years to compile, he dismisses as "finger exercises." To date, little of his theory has been translated into the practice of healing. But he believes that a "whole new branch of medicine is opening up" and intends to devote his life to "this limitless field." He has hopes that specialists in stress will be able to catch up with-and eventually get ahead of-the stresses of civilization...
...downhill parts of the Buxton road gave Wright the most trouble. He had to lean sharply toward Macclesfield to keep from falling flat. But with a couple of forward-walking friends for company (see cut), Wright backtracked to a modern local record,* 3 hr. 14 min., half a minute better than John Alcock's time...