Word: shortening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seek accommodation either in more expensive dormitories or in private houses in Cambridge. In attempting to remedy a condition which admittedly needed remedy, another condition is created which is more inequitable and discriminatory. It would seem that the true solution of the problem would have been to shorten the time during which a student is allowed to live in these dormitories and apply the same rule with the privilege of a longer stay to those students who could show that their financial condition demanded it. It is a situation which cannot be governed by a hard and fast rule...
...Religious feeling animates and strengthens our soldiers. The victory of the allied troops will begin a new era of national prosperity. May the Lord of Hosts shorten the days of the struggle, and grant us peace, from north and south, for the happiness of the nation and the glory of religion...
...Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Elijah Johnson, Negro handler, was caught plugging a piece of sponge into the nostril of Racehorse Sun Mission to shorten his wind, insure his losing. Sun Mission finished third. Elijah Johnson's sentence: 90 days in gaol...
Orville Wright: Like his brother, a navigator, whose persistent faith and work gave to men highways in the sky, and the age of discovering new countries having passed, taught men to shorten to a quarter the spaces on the earth...
...very slow times, the Crimson could do nothing, and seemed without the slightest chance of placing. At the end, when Syracuse was tiring badly, the eight might have retrieved a poor second; but, if that was possible, it was not done. A good sprint served only to shorten a wide stretch of water; perhaps if it had been started sooner, Harvard could have passed the tired Orange boat...