Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring trip will be shorter this year and will not go as far south as was originally intended. The Council team will journey through the Middle Atlantic States, especially Pennsylvania, in which states it will come against three or four college teams. This trip will last from April...
...even to a wrestler thought comes occasionally. Last week 32 of them including Champion Miyagiyama struck, demanding better pay. shorter hours, cheaper seats, a mutual aid society, retirement pensions...
Depression-born babies will probably grow into men and women of subnormal size (Professor Franz Boas of Columbia University). "Economic conditions influence the size of growing children. . . . Among the poor the period of adolescence is delayed and the final stature shorter than that of the well...
...Show four times in a row. She won it for the fifth time last week. In the Cohasset, L. I. show last summer she won her 50th championship. Fifteen hands high, she holds her plump neck punctiliously arched, lifts her hoofs in a gait which is higher, slower and shorter in stride than that of a standard bred horse. She has four white stockings, a white star on her forehead and a white snip on her nose. Her black tail is cropped; on her black mane, in the show ring, are knots of red wool to accent the curve...
...well entrenched in the munitions field and from time to time since the War it has set the pace for the industry, continually improving its products. Its most notable recent accomplishment was Super X shells, with a slow-burning powder to give shotguns a more even explosion, a shorter shot-string. Super X was developed in the company's laboratories by President Olin's son John, a vice president...