Word: shorteners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example, when the food supply decreases, rats devour each other. This fact emphasizes the value of cleaning up tidbits that rats like to eat, says Lanier. Another observation, which may come in handy when PHS shows its movies to audiences: rats appear highly susceptible to emotional upsets. Repeated frights shorten their lives, e.g., insistent, inescapable noises, such as tapping on glass, can drive a rat to death...
Earlier in its weekly meeting, a particularly uneventful and ill-attended one, the Council resolved to advise the faculty against a measure currently under its consideration which would shorten the period during which students could hold final study cards before handing them in at the beginning of each term...
...Your sentences averaged 21.6 words . . . Syllables averaged 163 to 100 words. You were under the [Chicago] Tribune in [length of] sentences but over in syllables. The Sun-Times beat both of you . . ." To Martin's note, City Editor Clem Lane had scribbled an approving p.s.: "Let's shorten the sentences and shorten the words . . ." Later, scanning a long-sentenced lead by Veteran Rewriteman Robert Faherty, Lane growled an even more explicit order: "Let's keep the sentences under 15 words." Wounded, Bob Faherty decided to take Lane literally, began to brood over what he called "Formula...
...Book editor men with the Committee before vacation and discussed the problems which were delaying publication. Foremost among these he said was the necessity to shorten the volume in order to break even on costs...