Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average weight of the Cambridge crew is 176 pounds as against 183 for the Crimson. Not only are the visitors lighter, they're also almost three inches shorter...
There is little that these square, black calculators cannot do. They cannot digest any name with more than 18 letters. The unfortunate who has such a name gets a new and shorter title along with his number. These machines cannot think either, despite the ubiquitous little signs, labeled THINK in big black letters, surrounding them. But they come too close for comfort...
...already authorized MacArthur to operate anywhere in Korea, and the authorization remained valid until withdrawn; 2) for military rather than political reasons, the Joint Chiefs of Staff begrudged every mile of northward advance. With every mile Ridgway moved northward, the Communist supply lines from their Manchurian "sanctuary" grew shorter (therefore less vulnerable to air attack), and the U.N. lines grew longer...
...talk is obscene. Even more is funny, and a great deal is obscene and funny. The obscenities occur where they belong, and because the words are spelled right and used right they are surprisingly inconspicuous: Expurgated, "From Here to Eternity" would be less convincing, as well as consider ably shorter...
...radio telescope has detected waves shorter than 60 cm. that come from the depths of space beyond the sun. The mysterious "radio stars" (TIME, April 24) have been picked up only on wave lengths much longer than the Navy will use. This does not prove that they send out no shorter waves. Perhaps the new precision-built, delicately sensitive telescope will find new constellations of stars that shine by radio "light...