Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which he set against Yale in the 220 and 440. Springfield captain Bruce Hutchinson, whom Jorgensen beat in the 220 during the regular season, will provide his most serious opposition in both events. Dartmouth's John Glover is also a threat over the shorter course...
...United States adopted a program of six-month training as an alternative to two years of active service, the shorter service would undoubtedly prove immensely popular, to the possible detriment of the regular army. The problem might be solved, however, by providing that men with only six-months of training would be recalled for emergencies before men who had completed their two-year tour of duty in the regulars. With the aid of pay reforms and new G.I. benefits, the Defense Department could make the regular army as attractive as six-month service. While the Administration recently raised...
Potter's plan is simply to divide all English humor into nine categories, with samples, and prefix one long introduction and nine shorter ones. Perhaps there is some virtue in classifying humor in this manner, as much, anyway, as there is in making nine arbitrary divisions of, say, literature since Homer. But it seems to me that the field is much too broad and amorphous to be handled in a book of under three hundred pages, or in any book at all, for that matter. Potter himself must realize this, when he says of humor: "Perhaps its history...
...mile may also determine the Crimson's chances of victory, for the Big Red has placed two of its strongest runners in these events. Dick Wharton will battle cornell's Browne in the shorter race, while Al Wills takes on the home team's Rosenbaum in the mile: both races appear to be toss...
...shorter works which filled out the program, a sonata by Johann Christian Bach, and Hinde mith's Sonate (1938) were delightful and superbly performed. At first hearing, the Hindemith revealed a compression of structure in which a few, simple ideas receives coherent, sometimes fascinating development, though within quite limited terms...