Word: short
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worked for a short while in a Boston shoe factory. But then "we saw this empty store," Mama explains, "and a German we met said we should start for ourselves because we had no money and couldn't lose any. So we borrowed $43 to pay the rent on the house and the store and started repairing shoes...
...second informative article is a short history of Ivy Films by Andrew Hunt, containing the news that the makers of "A Touch of the Times" are contemplating a documentary on trucks (sic) for their next effort...
...Enright is a short wizened, 75-year-old Irishman with blue eyes and a characteristic brown hat. He has seen Harvard football players come and go ever since 1888, when he became head caretaker of the Soldiers Field grounds. Enright was officially retired in 1939, but he still helps out now and then when something comes up that stymies the more inexperienced...
...Hoffman was nibbling at a problem which many economists feel will inevitably scuttle the value of any economic aid we send to Europe, at least on a short-run basis. Europe, partially due to war damage, partially to technical immaturity, can produce neither as cheaply nor as efficiently as the U.S. This means it cannot trade with us in a particularly equal give and take footing. But this situation is even further aggravated by the myriad trade barriers and currency controls still stretched onto the containment; these restrictions are actively preventing what Hoffman calls the "resumption of normal healthy trade...
...tests, a six-year-old child is seated in front of three cylinders, one right before him and the other two a short distance away. The child is asked to name his favorites of two toy figures on the two distant cylinders...