Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kelly had won short of half the 1,236,456 votes cast in Chicago that day, but Republicans, who cast 274,317 votes, nonetheless took hope for the election April 4. Reason: they had buried their worst local liability, clownish three-time Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, who in an attempted comeback at 70, complete with sombrero, coonskin coat, open Cadillac but with no new tricks, polled only 62,000 votes. The rest of the Republican vote went to establish a fresher, more attractive party face, that of Lawyer Dwight Herbert ("Pete") Green...
...François-Poncet's car approached, the doors were swung open by electricity and the Ambassador drove into a 350 footlong, marble-walled underground chamber, brilliantly lighted by bronze lamps. From this chamber the Ambassador was directed through a short, narrow tunnel into a huge, copper-lined elevator outfitted with ten comfortable leather seats. The elevator ascended a shaft bored through the heart of the mountain for 400 feet. At the top M. François-Poncet emerged to behold the new eyrie of Germany's strange, solitary master...
...School of Education. It was found that the success and speed of a reader varies as the number of stops he must make for each line of type read. The number of halts of the Yardlings used for the research was reduced from ten to six in the short period in which they have been working...
...line with a policy of printing columns by men in the University who are expert in a special subject, the CRIMSON will open a short competition for the positions of Music and Art columnists on Monday night at 7:30 o'clock...
...Harvard's labor front than the threat of a general walk-out which the kitchen and dining-hall workers hurled at the University early yesterday morning. Hasty, aggressive and doubtless ill-considered, it nevertheless showed a majority of workers democratically exerting their rights without fear of reprisal: in short, the ideal personnel...