Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about 185 Ib. ... They had to be good to beat Washington State, San Francisco and hold Southern California to a scoreless tie. . . . The center, Clyde Devine, is 6 ft. 6 in. tall and weighs 191 Ib. The running guard who plays next to him is Vernon Wedin, eleven inches shorter and 190 Ib. in heft. They're a fine looking pair...
...Union at 7.30 o'clock President Phillips stated that men would find debating experience valuable, because, for one thing, it offers greater opportunities for travel than any other College activity. This year opportunity is given to arrange trips to Richmond, Chicago, and to Canada, as well as other shorter journeys. Half a dozen applications for dual meets with the first year debaters have already been received, including invitations from Brown, Holy Cross, and Vermont...
...President Roosevelt seemed to have the Lippmann criticism in mind. He said: "Some countries which have Dictatorships have laid down five-year plans and ten-year plans. However, I believe that in this country, which has not got a Dictator, we can move further in a shorter period without naming a definite length of time. . . . We have attained much within the past few months, but we cannot accomplish all in a few months...
...studied the little men as they plowed through the water. They found that the crawl used by the Japanese was fundamentally the same as the so-called Australian crawl; but since the Japanese race is composed of small men, certain modifications had been made which were adapted to the shorter arm movememt of the swimmers. In the first place, the Japanese were completely relaxed in the water. There was no tension of any part; every muscle was loose and ready for work. To this lack of tension has been attributed much of the success of the team. There were more...
...will be a Cyclops, a Polyphemus, a being with one eye only. That eye, however, will not be situated in the centre of the forehead. It will stand instead in the centre of the face. The forehead will be much higher and the face below-the-forehead much shorter, and, at the horizontal boundary between the two, in the centre of that boundary, the spot where now the bridge of the nose appears, there will stand the one great...