Word: shortened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Efforts to shorten the period between the A.B. and the Ph.D., which now "averages six years in the natural sciences, eight in the social sciences and 10 in the humanities...
...Edward McL. Lyman, professor of Air Science, said yesterday that he had received approval from the Committee on Educational Policy to shorten the program. He added that all Air Force drill sessions and leadership labs will be discontinued after Monday...
...engineers decided to shorten the underpass under Boylston St. by about 20 feet, and the Commission voted to replant upstream the 19 sycamores due to be removed during construction of the underpass. Opponents of the underpasses have challenged the accuracy of the MDC claims, however...
...hung laundry in the East Room of the White House; yet she insisted on receiving visitors in a chair built like an empress' throne. Zachary Taylor's wife Margaret never wanted him to be President. She felt that it would deprive her "of his society and shorten his life," so she secluded herself in a wing of the White House, where she puffed away sulkily on a corncob pipe for the duration of his Administration. Mrs. U. S. Grant put so many tassels and hunks of ornate furniture in the East Room that people said it looked like...
Alfred George Hinds, universally known as Alfie, was convicted of a $100,000 safecracking job in 1953, after being arrested by Herbert Sparks, former chief superintendent of Scotland Yard's ace flying squad. Passionately attached to liberty, Alfie tried to shorten his twelve-year sentence by escaping from jail three times, lost 13 appeals to the highest courts in the land. All this moved Sleuth Sparks, when he retired in 1962, to write a series of articles in the London Sunday Pictorial pooh-poohing Alfie's claims of innocence...