Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British War Office simplification of Brno, site of the Czechoslovakian Arms Manufacturing Co. plant where the gun was perfected. * A trim, compact gun, it can be operated by one man and fired from the shoulder, on a bipod or tripod. It is ten pounds lighter and five inches shorter than the old army pattern Lewis gun, is gas-operated and air-cooled. There are two interchangeable barrels, so that if one overheats after a period of rapid firing, the other can be slipped in place in 20 seconds. With two men behind it, one feeding, the Bren can fire about...
Down Berlin's wide Unter den Linden last week paraded 8,522 men and 870 horses, the well-trained German troops goosestepping, the as yet untutored German Austrians passing by in an ordinary march. No novelty is a parade to the German capital, but this one, shorter than usual, had as its special point the 49th birthday of the Chief of National Defense of Greater Germany, Adolf Hitler...
Although the 48 State constitutions generally resemble their venerable counterpart, one major difference is that most are considerably shorter-lived. Three-quarters of the State constitutions provide for conventions at the behest of their constituents, making the average age of a State constitution between 20 and 25 years. New Hampshire has had eleven constitutional conventions, Louisiana ten, New York seven. In 1894 New York's Legislature made mandatory a referendum every 20 years after 1916 on whether a convention should be called. In 1916 the voters apathetically said No. In 1936 they apathetically said Yes. So last week...
...older type with open front and the shorter knee length which does not wrap around the ankles is going to be used this year. The crimson piping, formerly used on the gowns of class officers, has been discarded on the grounds that it has no academic significance...
...seem to prove why our vacation should be longer to earlier, but we can at least urge malcontents not to say "Why is our vacation so much shorter and later than any other?", but rather to confine their complaint to "Why is our vacation shorter than Yale's and later than Vassar's, Smith's, or Bryn Mawr...