Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Iran's tall, autocratic King of Kings Reza Shah Pahlavi, 58, gets older, his temper gets shorter. Less & less can he bring himself to humor the outlying world beyond his vast desert land, larger than Germany, France and Great Britain combined but with a population of only 15,000,000. Last year he curtly notified the diplomatic corps in Teheran that New Year's Day is March 22, told his envoys abroad to put a stop to the outlandish practice of calling Iran Persia. Last November the King of Kings was hopping mad over the outrage committed...
...work to develop his physique, rose every morning at 6, exercised for two hours in Fairmount Park. Now he boasts that his chest measurements are the same as Pugilist Joe Louis' "although I am shorter and 30 pounds lighter...
...should do unto me:"), thus: "In connection with my co-citizens a general standard of mutual goodwill and reciprocal non-aggression is obviously incumbent upon me; but a comprehensive delimitation of my obligations might be grouped under four categories. . . ." He does not agree that "one horrible long word is shorter. than two or three good short ones. . . ." When he turns up a particularly odious pomposity he calls it ''this seventeen-letter paper-sore...
...system, however, produces a keener and much shorter competition for the position of Varsity Football Manager. Three weeks work in the Spring, followed by eight weeks in the Fall is all that is required, and a turnout of twenty or thirty men will allow each man a certain number of days off. Thus the competition will be shorter and more efficient, with sufficient time left for academic requirements. Executive ability will be developed by increased responsibility, and the candidates will be given opportunity to organize their own work...
...quick! it is already 12, Down the spiral and by the Chapel to Harvard Hall. Russia is getting a jump on the world. Look at your globe. It is shorter to fly over the North Pole from Moscow to San Francisco than to follow the old paths. In June a Soviet plane will try that route. Grim, nevertheless Stalin is raising a hubbub among the international lawyers the world over; for what does the Soviet Government do but claim even the pack ice all the way to the North Pole! Ah, the bit in the teeth; the jump...