Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advice of the 1925 Jubilee Advisory Board, it was suggested that the dance be made shorter than usual, but nothing else was definitely planned. There will be another meeting next week, however, and it is expected that fuller details will be announced at that time...
...three weeks of drill this spring, but the time which has been lost in getting started will not be added at the end, and the length of the practice has been reduced to approximately two weeks. Coach Fisher expects, however, to cover the same amount of work in the shorter period by intensive drill...
...conferences in London last December between Mr. Bingham and the English officials, there was still some question as whether to have the length of the long-distance run two or three miles. This question was taken under discussion at the meeting Saturday with the result that the shorter distance was agreed upon as the more preferable...
...sending his men through light formation work and shooting practice yesterday afternoon Coach Wachter closed the week's preparation for the Worcester Polytechnic Institute game which is to be played at Worcester at 8 o'clock tonight. Throughout the drill, which was shorter than usual, the new line-up with McElroy and Merriam as first string substitutes was retained. Both Captain Gordon and McLeish reported for practice although the latter probably will not be able to play tonight. Both McElroy and Merriam have made fast strides recently and probably will play part of the game against the Engineers...
...true throughout American life. The dominant desire is to develop on one line regardless of the consequences in everything else. It is possible to picture human beings of the next century, with the tendency towards specialization carried to its logical conclusion, as mental "side-hill gougers", so much shorter on one side than on the other that they can wind round a hill only...