Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan for a trip to Venus, for instance, uses space ships from an orbit around the earth to establish a base on the moon (see diagram). A special ship then takes off from the moon at a moment when Venus is considerably behind both earth and moon on its shorter and faster orbit around...
Like Harvard, Yale has made a movie. It's quite a bit shorter than "Invitation to Harvard," running only 20 minutes, and it attempts to cover only a part of the college program, but Walker reports it has been an effective device...
...gelatin. The results reported by Dr. Hammon were heartening: of more than 27,000 children who received gamma globulin, only 2 developed paralytic polio; of an equal number who received gelatin, 64 suffered some paralysis. And, Dr. Hammon added, it looks as though the attacks were milder and shorter-lived for children who had G.G. than for the others...
...cars, Dodge has rounded off the old boxy body, while increasing seating and window space and retaining the "hat-room" that Chrysler Corp.'s Chairman K. T. Keller has always demanded. The new car has a new spring suspension system to cut sway on curves, a shorter wheelbase for greater maneuverability and a new system to make steering easier...
Unless he can secure this writ, which will cost about $1,000, French said he must be sentenced in Oregon. Although he must plead guilty, French thinks he will got a shorter and pleasanter sentence here, where two "liberally enlightened" Massachusetts judges have previously favored draft dodgers...