Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...such trust is sad and futile when we realize that though some may be granted a longer period, others will be cut short with a briefer. Many thousands make up an average. The average time of immunity is twenty-three days. For some it may be longer, for some shorter. What are a few days...
...Monthly has fallen a prey to all the ills that flesh is heir to, has had periods of wild absurdity and of utter dullness; but it has ever avoided that smiling self-complacency which is the predominating note of our other College papers. Nowhere, however, does a heretic find shorter shrift than in an American university, so, particularly at this time when orthodoxy in word and deed has been raised to a mystic religion, there will be few to weep the Monthly's temporary demise. Yet Harvard sorely needed the Monthly. In the world outside it was looked...
...system of voluntary military training has been installed at Cornell University, in addition to the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and the Cadet Corps already established there. The purpose is to assist a larger number of students to qualify for officers in a shorter time. The drill will be offered three times a day in periods of three hours each...
...companies originally formed for athletes, which drilled four hours on Mondays, will drill one hour daily five times a week after the vacation. It was found that the long and strenuous drill period did not give as good results as were obtained from the shorter sessions...
...known officially as the United States magazine rifle, Model 1903. It differs in many features from the Krag-Jorgensens, the model of 1898, which were supplied by the Government for the use of the Regiment last year, and which the Corps is now using. The barrel is considerably shorter, a fact which changes to a certain extent the balance of the piece. The same bolt action is used in both types, but instead of the side feeding magazine of the Krag-Jorgensen, the clip used in the Springfield are shoved in from the top. The calibre of the new arms...