Word: shorteners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...March, and with your musket carry your rest! Unshoulder your musket! Poise your musket! Join your rest to your musket! Take forth your Match! Blow off your coal! Cock your match! Try your match! Guard, blow, and open your priming-pan! Charge your musket! Draw forth your scouring stick! Shorten your scouring stick! Put in your bullet and ram home! Present! Give fire! Dismount your musket! Uncock your match! Return your match! Clear your pan! Prime your pan! Shut your pan! Cast off your loose powder! Blow off your loose powder! Cast about your musket! Trail your rest! Open your...
...Meat can shorten a man's life, warned Health Minister Ramon Carrillo last week in a speech to 4,000 fellow Argentines. With evangelistic fervor, Carrillo urged them to eat less meat and more vegetables, and to persuade other citizens of the Republic of Beef to do the same. The occasion was a government-sponsored conference on "Rational Eating." Officially, its purpose was to improve Argentines' health by educating them to "modify negative eating habits"; actually, the conference was another effort to relieve Argentina's beef shortage...
Several calendar changes, results of the University's attempt to shorten the school year and moye graduation up one week, will be tried this year, the new course catalogue indicates...
...more intensive work in term time enable such students to cover four years' college work in two and a half years or three? How serious would be the sacrifice of some of the imponderables of college life involved in any increase in the tempo? What can be done to shorten professional education with out great damage to the quality of the training...
...reservists. There would be a dangerous wait after an emergency developed before the military could prepare an adequate force to meet it. Only inducting veterans--as was done when the Korean War broke out--or using green troops, shipped to the danger area fresh out of the reserve, could shorten the delay...