Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Contemporary American Novelists, Carl Van Doren says of him: "His shorter stories not less than his novels are racy with actualities: he has caught the dialect of his time and place with an ear that is singularly exact; he has cut the costumes of his men and villages so that hardly a wrinkle shows. In particular he understands the pathos of boyhood, seen not so much, however, through the serious eyes of boys themselves as through the eyes of reminiscent men reflecting upon young joys and griefs that will shortly be left behind and upon little pomps that can never...
Coach Wachter feels that the chief handicap of the University quintet is lack of height. Almost every strong player on the squad is shorter than the average. This will prove a three-fold disadvantage. The Crimson is likely to lose the ball in the toss-up at center, in the toss-up from scrimmage, and from the rebound off the back-board. To offset this handicap, unusual cleverness in getting possession of the ball in scrimmage is essential. The two Sophomores in the starting line-up, Maher and Combs, have shown marked ability in emerging from scrimmage with the ball...
...Atlantic coast, they will fly to Europe, probably by way of Greenland or Iceland, thence through Central and Southern Europe, Asia Minor, Arabia, India, China, Japan; and home by way of Alaska. This itinerary will cover 27,000 miles, nonrecognition of the Soviet Government precluding the much shorter route through Siberia...
...message to U. S. President Coolidge stating that he hoped "the new means of intercourse . . . will contribute greatly to the strengthening of the existing friendship between our countries." It follows, then, that Mr. Gibson will be able to get into touch with the U. S. State Department at much shorter notice than heretofore...
...interesting to see together three of the gayest spinners of romantic yarns. Lloyd Osborne, the son-in-law and collaborator of Robert Louis Stevenson, florid, tall, grey; George Barr McCutcheon, always jovial and kindly; Farnol, shorter than either of them, quite unimpressive until he bubbles over with some sudden enthusiasm for an anecdote...