Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shorter the war, the less likely is the U. S. to become involved. But the war will be prolonged if the Allies cannot get arms from the U. S. They will have to stand on the defensive until they can build new arsenals and airplane factories. Rebuttal: If the Allies realize that they cannot get arms from the U. S., they may be more inclined to make peace quickly, or they may be soon conquered by the Germans...
Several inches shorter, three years older, and much richer than his Producer-Brother David (Gone With the Wind), dumpy, belligerent Myron Selznick at 40 is not only Hollywood's No. 1 agent but one of its most influential individuals. He found his career by accident by getting his friend...
...route from San Francisco to Japan via the Aleutian Islands is 1,700 miles shorter than the route via Hawaii...
Shoulders are vaguely broader. Bosoms conform to high, lifted lines. Everyone agrees on the minute waist line. Full skirts-"the bouncing, double, swing skirt"-are shorter, straight moulded skirts are longer. The steatopygous bustle is definitely...
Died. Cecilia Waterbury Cummings, 40, third wife of former U. S. Attorney General Homer Cummings; of high blood pressure; in Washington. She was 29 years younger, 17 inches shorter than her 6-ft.-4 husband, but official Washington considered them its most devoted couple. In 1937 she asked for-and got-permission to wear a red dress when presented at the Court of St. James's. As a hostess she was tough, delighted to scramble New Dealers and Conservatives, took no political sides herself: "Politics is Homer's business, not mine...