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...athletics shorten one's life span? Does rowing hurt the heart? These questions have only partly been answered by modern research...

Author: By Harry Hammond, | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 11/16/1939 | See Source »

...Landon, and his 1936 running mate, flattered Frank Knox of Chicago. To them Franklin Roosevelt forecast a long and widening war, hammered home that the longer the war, the greater the danger to the U. S., hence the U. S. should try to shorten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Opening Gun | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Grand strategy of the Polish Armies was to retire slowly, conserve manpower, shorten their lines. Their Western stand was to be on a line running south from Torun to Czestochowa. From there South to behind Teschen they had a fortified front which the German divisions must crack or outflank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Grey Friday | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...first and second parts of the report immediately sound the tonic note an clarion tones. The Committee has made a conscious effort to reduce the uncertainty, insecurity, and bewilderment which nag the shorten the period of probation before a permanent appointments. Such also is its formulation of definite and positive criteria for advancement. The young teacher will now know what to aim for, what to stress; and he need no longer cower so abjectly before the dread god Publication. Together these recommendations should effectively dull the Demolition sword suspended over the lower academic ranks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EIGHT DELIVERERS | 3/31/1939 | See Source »

...Dear Sir: Fact is, Dick Harlow asked us to shorten the field to ninety-five yards in the hope that his men could get somewhere against Yale at that length. Sincerely, the Editors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 11/22/1938 | See Source »

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