Word: short
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Good Guys. After a fried-chicken lunch and a short press conference, Presidential Hopeful Symington boarded the Cadillac again, rode to the courthouse square to do his speechmaking bit as guest of honor at Abbeville's yearly Dairy Festival. Atop a speaker's platform adorned with red, white and blue bunting and "Symington for President" signs, he smilingly endured the Missouri Waltz played on an electric organ, then permitted photographers to snap away as Dairy Festival Queen Laurie Lee Broussard, 17, planted a decorous kiss on his cheek...
...steam locomotives in freight service and switchyards to realize a saving of $200 million a year. ¶ Allow management only to stipulate the number of required crew members. ¶ End rules requiring idle stand-by operating employees when self-propelled equipment is used and eliminate multiple crew changes on short-run trains...
...varsity a 3-0 lead. For the remaining 40 minutes of play, the valiant varsity line fought to contain Princeton's offense on the wet, muddy field. The Tigers twice moved deep enough into Harvard territory to try for a field goal, but each time the kick fell short. The varsity limped off the field still undefeated, but subdued. Two weeks later, Brickley, one of the greatest kickers in collegiate annals, scored 15 points on five goals from the field to defeat Yale single-handedly...
Last fall, a Crimson comeback led by quarterback Charlie Ravenel nearly produced a tie against a powerful Princeton eleven, but Ravenel fell one yard short on his conversion attempt...
...example was last Sunday night at the meeting in Comstock Hall with undergraduate leaders. In a short question-and-answer period, the Russians' only questions concerned the functioning of the Student Council, while the Americans seemed more interested in questioning the delegation about the effectiveness of last summer's Vienna Youth Festival...