Word: short
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into the ruckus. He belabored the board for ignoring anti-Hovde sentiment in Queens". Later, after public reminders that the appointment was none of his business ("An unseemly bumble," cried the New York Herald Tribune), he backed down. But Hovde withdrew his name from the pot. So, a short time later, rdid another promising candidate, Walter Consuelo Langsam, president of 1,200-student Wagner Memorial Lutheran College on Staten Island. On reflection, he decided to stay where he was. The board, which didn't care much for Miss Kiely, started its search all over again...
...bulldog-jawed, 5 ft. 10½ in. Ben Jones walks with short, mincing steps and a hint of a limp (from a football injury). But he sits a horse straighter than most men half his age. Outside Barn 15 at Churchill Downs last week, atop his stable pony, Ben hardly looked like the boss of the most efficiently run stable in U.S. racing history. There are no fancy airs about Ben Jones, from Parnell...
...romped home last month by seven lengths in the $50,000-added Gallant Fox Handicap, he was assigned 138 Ibs. for Memorial Day's Suburban Handicap at Belmont. "That would strip his gears," stormed Ben, "and if he won, the next time they'd put 145 on him." In short, Coaltown was a very doubtful starter in the Suburban...
...pass its structural aerodynamic tests, has already proved itself superior to comparable airplanes powered with piston engines. It burns more fuel, but it carries a ton of extra payload because of the lightness of its engines. It cruises at 325 m.p.h. with 40 passengers, and is designed for short or medium runs, such as London-Paris and London-Rome...
...Christian Bore. Yet, complains Author Sayers, dullness is just the epithet people most often apply to dogma, simply because the churches have lately tended to subordinate dogma to a vague, generalized effulgence of sweetness and light. To demonstrate, she concocts a short examination paper with answers that might be expected from the ordinary layman...