Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Actually, the shorter candidate occasionally wins. In the election of 1924, for example, 5-ft. 10-in. Calvin Coolidge defeated John Davis...
...convict's attitude. But the system would work, it has been argued, if inmates were regularly reviewed by a panel of psychologists as well as parole officers. Some reformers would like the original sentences fixed by correction officers and psychologists instead of judges. If fixed, sentences should be shorter -on the average, those in America are longer than comparable prison terms in a western European democracy...
South Seas Ventures. Taking a longer view, most airline officials believe that the big planes will prove a wise investment. For one thing, the new subsonic superjets cost an average of $5,000,000 less per plane than the Boeing 747 and, having shorter ranges, can operate profitably on many more routes. The International Air Transport Association predicts that worldwide passenger travel will grow by more than 300% by 1985-a time well within the life-span of any newly made jet-and that the air-cargo business will go up eightfold. Vacation travelers are venturing farther and farther from...
...craft, the giant Boeing 747. Some 250 of them are already cruising the skies, carrying an average of 325 seats each. Now a whole new set of superjets is coming into service, a fleet that will introduce the marvels and frustrations of wide-bodied planes to travelers taking much shorter trips than the 747 ordinarily makes. The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 (see color) has just begun commercial flights, and in 1974 U.S. and European airlines plan to start using at least four other superjets...
...Richard Harris, environmental horticulturists working at the University of California at Davis, have come up with the most convincing answer so far. Their theory: perimeter trees that are fully exposed to the wind and are shaken by it-or any tree shaken by any means-will be stronger but shorter at maturity...