Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...transport, the jet which British planemakers hoped would compete with Boeing and Douglas. The only jet transport now abuilding for commercial use is de Havilland's Comet Four, scheduled for delivery about the same time as the Boeing. But the Comet is slower, smaller and has a shorter range (no nonstop transatlantic flights...
...last week the Administration's policy of tightening credit, city by city, in the major Federal, Reserve districts had finally taken hold. The cost of borrowing money all over the nation had risen, causing a decline in available credit. Member banks of the Federal Reserve were shorter of loanable funds than at any time since the spring of 1953. In the field of consumer credit, the trend of loans was still up (to $34,293,000,000), but the climb was leveling out. Installment debt rose in September to a new high...
...Shorter Time for Ph.D...
...Greece for the first time); but otherwise he likes to retreat to New Hampshire or Vermont, where he can answer letters that have accumulated over the year and can get his only exercise by walking, very slowly and contemplatively, over the hilly countryside. "Of course the walks are getting shorter now," he notes...
...varsity finished five seconds behind Yale in the time of 20:10, while the Crimson JV boat covered the shorter two-mile course in 10:01, or two lengths off the pace. The Yardlings were clocked...