Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours. Topic No.1 before this extraordinary session was Russia's seven-year economic goals. Khrushchev was still trumpeting his familiar promises-80% more industrial output, 70% greater farm production, 62% more consumer-goods production-but, significantly, he omitted his 1970 target date for overtaking the U.S. He promised shorter hours, higher pay, a front door for every family, income tax repeal, "greatly reduced" police surveillance ("There are now no cases of people being made to stand trial for political crimes") -and he breezily explained that such "incentives" would make his goals possible...
...recently published study advised students to concentrate on one foreign language for four years, rather than several languages for a shorter period. McCabe "agreed 100 per cent" with Conant's language study recommendations...
...program offers the Army a valuable chance to experiment trying out new concepts, discarding old ones. It should not pass it up. Successful innovations developed now might prove invaluable in an emergency. If men with higher aptitudes, for instance, can be trained in a shorter period of time--and everything seems to affirm this...
...cars will be considerably shorter than present models, with wheelbases ranging from 106 to 113 in. The overhang of 1959-model U.S. cars will be reduced, thus cutting the overall length by 2 to 3 ft. The new cars will be rounded and tucked in. They will also be much lighter. Wide use of aluminum, coupled with a redesigning of thousands of individual parts from bolts to caps, will cut the overall weight to around 2,500 Ibs., almost one-third less than the weights of the 1959 Ford, Chevy and Plymouth. This in turn will mean...
...even shorter oral--reputedly the shortest on record--is told of a graduate student up for his Ph.D. in American Civilization. His first problem was to trace the sexual imagery in The Scarlet Letter...