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Word: shorted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intention is to devise an economic development program to encourage existing businesses to remain and to induce new business to relocate in Cambridge," Thomson says, adding that he supports "short term economic incentives to new businesses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Student Voting Guide | 11/6/1979 | See Source »

Like almost everyone else who came into contact with Alex, his nephew found the power of his legend and his charm irresistible. How could it be otherwise with a man who had begun his career directing short films in a disused trolley barn in Budapest and ended up occupying the penthouse floor of Claridge's in London, where Churchill and Beaverbrook lingered over brandy and where a supply of fresh toothbrushes, still in their cellophane wrappers, was kept to accommodate women who decided to spend the night. Some of them, it was said, were seduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Imperial Alex | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...focuses the attention, the publicity, in such a special way. You're so much in the spotlight, and your science suffers correspondingly." But Glashow, while feeling the immediate pressures of the prize and the extent to which they impinge on his study, does not agree. "It is only a short-term interruption, just look at all the other cases in which it was awarded young...

Author: By James Aisenberg, | Title: An Invitation To Stockholm | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

This in itself constituted a revolution in physics. From here, though, Einstein turned to the ambitious task of developing a "unified field theory." This theory strives, in short, to demonstrate that behind the four observable forces in nature--electromagnetism, gravity, the "weak" and "strong" forces--there lies a single force...

Author: By James Aisenberg, | Title: An Invitation To Stockholm | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Although the mud drastically cut down Harvard's speed, the Crimson's style of hitting long chip shots up to the forward line to get into scoring position proved more effective than Brown's style of working up the field on short passes. With very few exceptions, the Bruins' short shots died yards in front of the intended receiver and were open to anyone...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Women Booters Capture Ivies | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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