Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dean Bender said yesterday that because of great service manpower needs educators must find some way to condense the American educational process into a shorter time period. "Somewhere in the whole process, from pre-school through college, we must save some time. The question of how to do this should be studied with interest," he said...
Jehangir "Muggy" Mugaseth, also a junior, is a stylist similar to Nawn, who learned squash in the shorter, wider English courts and is now adapting himself to the American game. Aliston Flagg, Dave Symmes, and Wister Wood are engaged in a close battle for the ninth and last position on the 'A' team, with Flagg currently on top. Both individually and as a team, the 1950 squashmen show great promise; they have started perfectly and could conceivably wind up with one of the top varsity records of the year...
Although Tech averaged about two inches shorter per man, the Crimson ball-handling was superior. Bill Hickey, Forrest Hanson, and Bob Bramhall out-fought the Engineers, and were consistently able to pass the ball in to Lionette in the bucket or a free man underneath the basket...
...Jordan gets great satisfaction in accepting challenging situations and working them out. Successes in the past have come slowly to him, but they have come and he prefers this sort of success to that of other coaches who have become famous within a shorter period of time. To him, it seems more lasting...
Tapline, which will deliver 350,000 barrels of oil a day to the Mediterranean coast, will change the oil-supply map of the world. The North Atlantic nations will get a much faster supply of oil because of the shorter Mediterranean route, previously fed only by Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipelines from Kirkuk. Europe, long a big importer of oil from the Western Hemisphere, can now take more from the Middle East, leave Western Hemisphere supplies to the U.S., which now depends increasingly on imported...