Word: shortest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...urged to remain. But when he says that unless we let him make our country over according to the Bolshevik pattern, he will leave us to our bourgeois fate, he should be informed that nobody wants to keep him here for a moment; and he should be shown the shortest way to that land whose freedom and beauties he extolls so highly through the medium of the playful bomb and festive pistol...
With its 80,000 words, presented in less than six months from the armistice the peace treaty is the longest and will probably be concluded in the shortest time of any comparable treaty in modern times. Treaties with which comparison is suggested are those of Westphalia, signed in 1648 after seven years deliberation, those of Utrecht signed in 1713, eighteen months after the preliminaries, and that of Vienna signed June 9, 1815, fourteen months after the first capitulation of Napoleon but while the opposing forces were gathering for the final struggle at Waterloo...
Checks Mailed in Shortest Time Possible...
...twenty-one or two will come to realize that he is not too old to pursue his studies further (in the law school, for instance, or the graduate school of business, or the technical school,) because he will understand that the longest way around is, in this case, the shortest way home...
...second term will begin January 2, and end Thursday, March 20. Spring vacation will extend from Friday, March 21, to Thursday, March 27, inclusive. The third term will be the shortest of the three, since the final examinations commence June...