Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every 3.3 seconds, a patient enters a U. S. hospital. During 1938 one person in 14 became a hospital patient. If he went to a general hospital he stayed about twelve days. Each year this average period of hospitalization "is clipped shorter and shorter...
...gagging about Buick's expensive sponsorship of Joe Louis' recent sweet but short fights. Radio Jester Fred Allen, who sells Ipana tooth paste and other Bristol-Myers nostrums, last week bested the bunch by cracking: "I hear if his fights get any shorter the broadcasts will be sponsored by Minit...
...coach also has some very definite ideas on how to make the games next spring more interesting for the spectator. In the first place, the games will be speeded up with less delay by catchers hitching and unhitching their pads; there will be shorter warm-ups by pitchers; and less stalling by umpires. He repeated, "it's going to be a hustling team...
...three years collecting it, and another nine years were spent at Harvard analyzing it. Now Anthropologist Hooton is ready to release his findings. The Harvard University Press is to publish a huge technical monograph in three volumes for scientists. For laymen, many-sided Dr. Hooton last week published a shorter and simpler book, Crime and the Man* which put the salient facts of his investigation in lighter form...
Some of his conclusions: the whole class of criminals in general is marked off from the civilian population by organic inferiority. "Old American" criminals (native-born whites of native parentage) tend to be smaller and lighter, to have shorter and broader faces, narrower jaws, more sloping shoulders, longer and thinner necks. To the trained anthropologist the dimensions and contours of their heads and faces are sometimes suggestive of retarded development, sometimes of the retention of primitive features, and often of conservatism which may be described as evolutionary rigidity or a failure to conform to modern trends of physical change." Whether...