Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson basketball varsity will open its season against a shorter, but more experienced U-Mass squad tonight...
This position complements the Dean Elder-Jaques Barzun report which calls for a shorter period in attaining the doctorate. At present, many graduate students spend five years or longer working toward the Ph.D...
Turning to 1960 Republican presidential possibilities, Dewey saw Vice President Richard Nixon as a "superb" candidate. He protested that this was no presidential endorsement for Nixon ("they're all good men"), but he gave notably shorter shrift to others. Said he of retired General Alfred Gruenther: "I don't know him well." And of California's Senator William Knowland and Hardy Perennial Harold Stassen: "I haven't seen them campaigning...
...these papers in Gen Ed A would insure a wider selection of topic and a deeper concern for performance. Thus there will be a better basis upon which to evaluate and criticize writing style. Not all the shorter assignments need be discarded; a proper balance might be to require three papers written for other courses and three of the shorter type now assigned in Gen Ed A. For many students who find writing an almost traumatic experience this would have the added advantage of decreasing the number of papers written during the freshman year, thus making more time available...
...first U.S. visit since 1955, Simonetta crossly jangled her charm bracelet at a New York Timeslady and cried: "All over the country I have seen what I have never seen before . . . Where is the three-quarter sleeve? Where is the lithe waistline, the close-fitting hipline? The shorter hemline? These are not being worn, although we presented them in the last collections!" But, after a careful survey of passing silhouettes, she did have a good word, too: "Last time I was here it was talk, talk, talk of diet. Evidently it was not all talk. American figures are surprisingly good...