Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Still, in its seriousness and workmanly care, Main Line is a moderately promising first novel-though it scarcely promises a novelist. By the end of his middling-length book, Author Biddle is so badly out of breath and ideas that it is clear he was meant to go a shorter distance...
Slashing contract charges including shorter working hours, higher pay, and longer vacations were asked by Radcliffe Building Service Employees at their meeting last night...
Radcliffe's maids will ask for shorter hours, longer vacations, and increased sick leaves at a meeting with College officials today, according to Josephine Coleman, head of the Annex maids' union...
Skirts were tighter and shorter, as much as 16 in. from the ground. Padded hips were out; gone, too, were the waist corsets and many of the other foolish furbelows which had come in with the New Look. In some collections, like Balmain's, there was a nostalgic look of the '20s. The trend was to more simplicity. The object, said one designer, was "not to astonish but to please...
...needs. Refrigeration put an end to the small-boned, fat-heavy hogs; consumers wanted leaner meat. But hog farmers, working to breed their animal out of the barrel and into the icebox, soon found themselves in another fix: the big-boned hogs of the early 20th Century were shorter on fat all right, but their giant hams were sized to feed an army rather than a family, and they were stringy besides. After World War I, hog breeders went to work again and finally molded today's trim, streamlined 225-lb. porker, with apartment-size hams...