Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maine the small saltwater gastropod that abounds on the rocky coast is known as a piniwinkle (all three i's short as in pin), although referred to as a periwinkle in other sections of the country. The winkle is the fleshy snail-like occupant that conceals itself in the protective shell...
...short-wave broadcast from Tokyo last week reported new conflict: Some fighting in Kansu Province, Communist demands for more Central Government funds, a conference of Communist leaders at Yenan headed by the second-in-command, Chu Teh, to discuss the contingency of open warfare with Chungking...
Then came a brand new question: Identify the contemporary ruler or political bigwig who is i) a shoemaker's son, 2) a baker's son, 3) a blacksmith's son, 4) a bastard's son. They got the first three in short order: Stalin, Daladier, Mussolini. For No. 4, Oscar Levant's candidate was Adolf Schickelgruber. A woman in the audience disagreed.* "Wasn't he, really?" queried Fadiman, glancing owlishly around. "Well," spake John Kieran, beating Fadiman to the evening's punch line, "he is, if he wasn...
When it was Yale's turn to fumble and Dick Paster fell on Burr's dropped ball on the 37, Whiteman's interception stopped short Crimson joy two plays later...
...upset fashion, traditional and typical of a 58 year-old rivalry, the Bulldog from New Haven snapped and caught short a fighting Crimson eleven this afternoon. As 55,000 fans were jarred to their feet, the underdog Yale team offset a series of previous defeats in one fell swoop defeating a determined but not yet developed Harvard Varsity Yale 20; Harvard...