Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Specific suggestions for improving the receptions of future Freshman classes at Harvard are few: the dining halls should be opened during the preliminary meetings, the meetings themselves should be shorter and of more varied interest; beyond that there is little...
...short end of the radio spectrum, interference between the waves is avoidable through proportionately shorter spacing. Where only 12 stations could operate in a 100-metre range of the upper scale, many times that number can be accommodated by the first 100 metres of the lower scale. This fact, together with economy of power consumption and the proven superiority of short waves in penetrating belts of static, is what has led to exploration of the short-wave field. The Hammond system promises to multiply the multiple possibilities of this field, by 8 at least, probably by a higher number...
...Interstate Commerce Commission referred the application for report to a group of experts. The experts found themselves agreeing largely with the objecting lines: That although the route would be shorter the present through routes handle the traffic adequately; that most of the traffic of the new route would be secured at the expense of existing routes, thereby reducing their revenues; that except for a slight time-saving to the public on through shipments, the proposed route was likely to produce little except new financial difficulties in railroad finance...
Years passed. Shorter of skirt but not of wind, she continued to play sterling tennis. In 1921 she was put at number 4 in the national ranking. Last March, in Pasedena, she took a set from Champion Helen Wills. She played her again last week in the third round, won the first two games, returned Miss Wills' terrific forehanders with a sting that made a huge gallery rise to cheer her. The match, however, could have only one outcome; the score of her de-feat was 6-3, 6-2. While this was occurring, Mrs. Lambert Chambers, Mrs. Bundy...
...heat made it a curiosity long ago. Charlemagne was said to have had a tablecloth of it; Eskimos used it for lamp-wicks. Mined from veins in the earth, white or gray horn-blende-asbestos may have fibres five or six feet long, but brittle. Serpentine-asbestos has shorter fibres, yellow or greenish, of great tensile strength and elasticity. Canada (near Quebec) is a great source. The rock is quarried, cobbed by hand, dried, crushed, rolled, divided by "fiberizers," graded, woven...