Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson freshmen took every place except first. Veteran George Terry, the brother-in-law of varsity winner Kelly, took first on a shorter course in 14:54. He was the only BU runner to place in the freshman meet...
INVESTMENT bankers can expect less SEC red tape. Among pending reforms: 1) shortening of the 20-day waiting period before better-grade debt securities can be sold; 2) shorter registration forms for investment trust and high-grade bonds...
...about it. Six months later an official from the public prosecutor's called on the priest, who swore to the truth of the confession. That was in 1937, but the wheels of Fascist justice ground slowly, if at all. Carlo remained in jail. The guilty man serving the shorter sentence was released; he died under German machine guns in the massacre of the Ardeatine Caves, near Rome, in 1944. The third holdup man died in jail. Only Carlo was left...
RAILROADER Robert Young's "Train X," the low-slung, speedy (up to 150 m.p.h.) train which Young thinks will cut costs drastically and transform passenger travel, will soon be built. The train will have shorter cars, a far lower center of gravity than conventional trains. To build it, Young's Chesapeake & Ohio is teaming up with the New York Central, which is 10% owned by the C. & O. The deal is the first evidence of cooperation between C. & O. and the Central, in which Bob Young thinks he should have a directorship...
...awesome Royal Gorge, and out again. Only a daring Swiss pair finished; most others dropped out short of the gorge, where capsized boatmen, flanked by sheer rock palisades, have little choice but to sink or be swept, dead or alive, through the canyon. Though .safer, the present shorter course is still a grim ordeal by white water, spiced by three major rapids threatening upsets and death to even the best boatmen...