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Word: short (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This week Elihu H. Bailey, mayor of Evarts, announced that he had found 24 sticks of dynamite beneath his bedroom window; attached was a fuse which had burned out a few inches short of a percussion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: New Grave in Harlan County | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...takeover. Before dawn of the next day, 20,000 troops of General Chen Yi's third field army marched into the city through the northwest gate. Country boys from Manchuria stared in open wonder at Nanking's big modern government buildings, all of which were occupied in short order. University students gathered to sing patriotic songs in welcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Naked City | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...likewise there stand the Riders; and thou shalt know them by their exceeding hunger and by their legs, which go only a short way before touching the ground; but thous shalt heed them...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan, | Title: Chinese Dopester Tells All | 4/30/1949 | See Source »

...those four wins were registered over such nonentities in the rowing world as Washington and Lee, Rollins College (where you can major in hunting and fishing), Florida Southern, and Tampa University, which reduces the Terriers to a status something short of imposing...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Crews Face MIT, BU This afternoon | 4/30/1949 | See Source »

...editor written by one Lowell Sachnoff '52. He stated that he occupied Bed 8 in Ward 3, and that the writer of the first article, Paul W. Mandel, occupied Bed 10. It is commendable that writer Sachnoff remembers even that he was there, his stay was so short...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smith Strikes Back | 4/29/1949 | See Source »

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