Word: shortest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sweat standing out from every pore one such Heroine of Labor paused long enough to pant at correspondents: "I asked for it! It's hard work, but I wanted to make more. You are on the run all the time, but after a few bumps you learn the shortest way from one loom to another, and how to save steps. I feel all right, tired, but nothing serious. I guess it would be easier, though, if we got more nourishing food. What we get is pretty poor." "I Spend My Money." Loaded with lingerie, perfume, champagne, vodka, cheese...
...session turned out to be the shortest in Danish history. The red-bearded Premier, who was once head of the Danish cigar-sorters' union, had determined to pass the devaluation issue back to the voters. The voters who had called on the King, the radical farmers, he knew would vote against him. Though his Government was under no compulsion to face an election for another year, he last week got a decree from hard-jawed King Christian proroguing Parliament, dissolving the lower house (Folketing) and calling for new parliamentary elections...
Obscure by preference and by the nature of his functions, and an officer of the University unknown to students who followed the relatively straight and narrow path, was Matthew Luce '91, Regent. On Monday, July 1, the University News Office published the shortest release it has issued: "The resignation of Matthew Luce '91 as Regent of Harvard was announced today. Mr. Luce has been Regent since...
...first turn, Lawrence Hanover. As the horses trotted into the first leg of the V-shaped backstretch, the crowd groaned because Warwell Worthy had opened up a gap of 15 lengths. Although Greyhound was almost the same distance ahead of the rest, it looked as if the shortest priced Hambletonian favorite in years was now doomed to lose the heat...
...compete. Experience has shown that without dunking a doughnut is dry eating and may become lodged in the digestive tract. The recent remarkable reductions in time have been due to an improved technique of motion that brings the doughnut from the coffee cup to the mouth in the shortest possible arc. Let us forget our gastronomic niceties for a bit. If one of our number is successful it may signify the beginning of an athletic renaissance. In any event, if doughnuts for breakfast have been substituted for hockey rinks we should not look the gift horse in the face. Appreciation...