Word: short
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although it was impossible on such short notice for the committee to go through all the pledge cards, workers took what they considered a "fair sample" of 115 cards and discovered that only 18 out of the 115 requested that no money go to the Council...
...easier to avoid a depression than to cure it. Continuous watching and suitable remedial action is possible and lies within the province of the President's Economic Council and the Joint Committee of Congress. It remains to be seen whether those bodies will act on the basis of short-sighted, political expediency or will address themselves to the serious task assigned to them...
...excellence of his play in the goal can be seen from the fact that two scores were made when the Crimson was one man short, and two others were on double rebounds, when there was such a melee in front of the nets that no human being could have known exactly where the puck...
...York papers devoted much space to the shortage in their city. There is supposedly only a 60-day supply lef in the reservoirs. This means that these reservoirs are depleted to only 37 percent of their full capacity and that the city is in danger of finding itself short of water for the winter...
Besides many short-term projects, Grant study's doctors have been gathering information on 252 University alumni--chosen from the classes of '40 and '42--since those men entered their sophomore year here. While full reports are made each year, the project will continue indefinitely. "We are trying to discover the factors that make normal people click and become successful," Dr. Clark Heath, Assistant Director of the Study says. "And, man, as opposed to the white rat, develops very slowly...