Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exams will be given. But students will be assigned one major paper and several shorter papers...
Better Break for the Fans To judge from the latest group of mammoth sports palaces, the real winners at games in the future will be the folks in the stands. Spectators can figure on walking shorter distances, sitting in living-room comfort and enjoying a better view of the action than ever before. Latest proof is the 19,000-seat Forum in suburban Inglewood, Calif., ten miles southwest of downtown Los Angeles. The $16.5 million Forum is the brainchild of Millionaire Sportsman Jack Kent Cooke, 55, who decided to put up a new home for his Los Angeles Lakers...
Bruin netminder Don McGinnis, who was largely responsible for his team's upset of Cornell last Saturday, is actually an inch shorter than Crimson goalie Bill Diercks. Diercks, who has not escaped the label "diminutive" since he first slid his 5-6 frame into a Harvard cage, was spectacular in the Crimson's knockoff...
...school could not handle in the past can now be fitted neatly into place. Taking maximum advantage of available time, 54 high schools as far apart as Las Vegas, Miami and Montclair, N.J., all report similar trends in their curriculums. Foreign language instruction is being doled out in shorter instruction periods to allow for the fatigue factor of intense learning. Courses in the humanities and social sciences are being divided into large lecture groups early in the week, then broken up into small units for study with different teachers. Students doing laboratory experiments and those in mechanical arts classes have...
...first real appearance in small, offbeat boutiques and far-out discotheques, it has surged onto the campuses, into offices, out on the avenue anywhere at all that youth defiantly chooses to show its colors. By general agreement, a true mini rises to just mid-thigh. But with dresses growing shorter by the season, whole new categories have had to be advanced. "Now," notes one San Francisco designer, "there is the micromini, the micro-micro, the 'Oh, My God' and the 'Hello, Officer...