Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faith. Took mother's hand and went to Macy's where Santa Claus gave us little presents. But by the age of nine we discovered that the Santa at Gimbel's gave bigger, better things away. And any-how the line was shorter. At age twelve we moved into an apartment house so we knew damn well that this chimney-stack stuff was a farce...
...other hand, the substitute forwards were unimpressive, and 6-8 Grif McClellan was frequently outjumped by men a foot shorter...
...Shorter Thesis...
Graduate students, moreover, should be allowed to substitute a shorter scholarly article for the doctoral thesis, Elder recommended. "We have too many dissertations resembling long books," he said...
...deep in a sallow face, with its high cheekbones and bulky forehead, expanded by baldness. It is the face of one who has held stubbornly to his beliefs and acted resolutely upon them. But visitors are often astonished to find him so aged and apparently frail. He seems shorter than his 5 ft. 7 in., older than his 51 years. These are the marks of his lifelong apprenticeship to Communism. Years of imprisonment in his youth left him with a lung ailment, a police bullet has permanently stiffened his right knee, and there are hints of unspecified internal organic disorders...