Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee. When chief investigator J.B. Matthews charged that Communists were using consumers' organizations in an effort to destroy the venerable American institution of advertising, Voorhis promptly tagged the report as sheer opinion. It turned out that Matthews was carrying a personal grudge against certain consumers' groups, and was strangely short on facts to support his statements...
...undoubtedly mere coincidence that Harvard came out on the short end of these myopic lapses, but nevertheless such events have the worst possible effect on amateur athletics. It was lax officiating that led to the unpleasant and bloody Moher incident in the Harvard-Yale hockey game in February, and there is still a good deal of bad feeling about some of the calls in the Yale football game last year...
Tailback JIMMY NOONAN hurtles around left end for a short gain in the in the first period of Saturday's struggle. Guard HOWIE HOUSTON prepares to throw a block on the Cadet second string center (55), while Crimson center PAUL O'BRIEN notes the progress of the play in the left background...
...Eliot team scored once more in the second half with Harry Guild scoring on a 50 yard pass play from Dave McGiffert. A short reverse in the third quarter, with Wheeler carrying, ended the scoring...
...short acquaintance and after two calls, he had proposed to Widow Martha Custis, yet, engaged to her, he could still write to his best friend's wife: "You have drawn me, dear Madam, or rather I have drawn myself, into an honest confession of a simple fact. Misconstrue not my meaning; doubt it not, nor expose it. The world has no business to know the object of my Love, declared in this manner to you, when I want to conceal it . . " Sally Fairfax answered his letter at once, but tactfully avoided any mention of his romantic confession...