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Word: shorted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...equipment is one pillow (craftily placed), one board (stuck on plenty tight), one uniform (sweatproof), and guts (to face 200 kids a day). The pay is a base scale of $1.00 an hour. The hours are short. The job, for eight Harvard men, is that of impersonating Santa Claus...

Author: By Jack Spratte, | Title: Harvard Men Work as Santas in Local Stores | 12/14/1948 | See Source »

Santa couldn't quite make it over to Bertram Hall after her reception at Barnard, so Bertram residents improvised and had a magician instead. Children claimed he could do everything short of pulling a rabbit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Santas Wow Youngsters | 12/14/1948 | See Source »

...authors have retold the story of U.S. literature-from Cotton Mather's desire to "fill this Countrey with devout and useful Books" written by himself to a description of how Gone With the Wind was garbled in Japanese. Only occasionally slipping into literary jargon, the authors have written short essays-a few brilliant, the rest solidly competent-that are good introductions for the ordinary reader, and quick once-overs for lazy students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Many Minds | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...maypole was center Dave Belcher, who calmly dominated the backboards throughout the game and also scored six points, and the little men were he rest of the team, short, fast, tricky, and good on the long shots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Five Tops Scrappy Bunnies | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...hope that his sarcasm doesn't hurt anybody too much. Sometimes he is cross and short and sometimes he is kind. At present he is cross and short...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More . . . | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

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