Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fire, Fire! Catastrophe!" The clang of a muffled bell fang out through the night. Vag, wandering down Holyoke Street, stopped short in his tracks. Screams of women and shouts of men could be heard coming from the innermost recesses of the Big Tree Swimming Pool. A man of action, Vag sprang to the rescue, dashed down a side alley, and burst through a small door at the rear of the Big Tree. Acrid smoke filled his nostrils. But undaunted, he staggered on through a dark corridor shouting, "Everybody keep calm. Walk, don't run, to the nearest exit...
Finicky collegians started more appetizing games. At San Jose (Calif.) State College, for example, Jack Baldwin wagered he could catch and kiss 20 co-eds in 30 minutes, fell six short. Soon San Francisco State College's Marshall Blum claimed a record: 40 kisses in five minutes. At New York University Co-ed Dorothy McDonald kissed 36 boys in four and a half minutes. San Diego State College's Joseph Arthur Pranis staged a three-day hunger strike to bring gulpers "to their senses." At week's end he was thwarted by what seemed an ultimate -horror...
...Florence Rena Sabin, 67. In 1893, plain, blonde Florence Sabin graduated from Smith College. After a short period of teaching zoology, she bravely entered Johns Hopkins Medical School, thus starting a long career of firsts: first woman to graduate from the Hopkins, first woman to teach there, first woman member of the Rockefeller Institute, first (and only) woman member of the National Academy of Sciences. She is famed for her discovery of the origin and processes of the lymphatic system, her account of the development of blood cells, her studies of the blood in tuberculosis, her testing of chemical substances...
...investment trusts, the Investment Corp. of Philadelphia and the Delaware Fund, Inc., and by using his sharp eyes in a number of ways. In 1931, for example, he took a look at Russia's bumper wheat crop, concluded that it would depress the world market, and took a short position in sterling that netted...
...Newcomb Carlton imperiously whacked his gavel, a short, balding, dimpled little man circulated happily through the muttering crowd. He was Stockholder Arthur C. Flatto,* enjoying a day to which he had looked forward for many months...