Word: shortened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decision recently announced by executives of the various major league baseball clubs to shorten the schedule in future years is but the most recent of the many indications that have accumulated to mark a decline in certain fields of professional sport. New York sport pages and individual columnists alike reflect the trend of the times with a tendency toward an Increasing emphasis upon amateur sports, upon tennis and golf and polo, that must be of some significance to the public at large, but of even more consequence to the collegiate world in which the best of amateur sport in certain...
Vigorous Bishop Breynat oversees the North Pole diocese. He inspects his charge by airplane. Father Griffin plans to shorten the devious route from Texas to his parish by flying over as much of the northern territory as possible. When he arrives he will be confronted by difficult tasks. Hostile native sorcerers are slippery hummocks of the spirit. To surmount them his cross must be his alpenstock...
...cross chop from several launches which had passed over the course. Crew X had a slight lead as the two eights passed under Harvard bridge, but Watts forced his shell ahead to a position almost a length in front of crew X. Swaim retaliated, but was not able to shorten to less than three-quarters of a length, the lead gained by his adversaries...
...rowing is concerned, the filling in of the shores will not seriously shorten the courses in the lower Basin, and the substitution of a sloping beach for the present granite wall will reduce the rough water which reflects back from this wall on account of the prevailing westerly winds...
...Senator Copeland's filibuster was ended when the Senate consented to shorten the Radio Commission's life to nine months from...