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Word: shorters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foreign immigration is not keeping the U.S. average down. According to the Army, the "old Americans" (all four grandparents native-born) are a hair's-breadth shorter and 1.5 Ibs. lighter than sons of immigrant parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Grandpa Was No Runt | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

Management has countered Union demands for higher wages and a shorter work week with statements that operations of the Club are "on a close to break-even basis," and that total wages have doubled during the past five years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Asks Conant Choose N.Y. Harvard Club Arbiters | 4/10/1948 | See Source »

...First, shorter, and better of the two, Tennessee Williams' "Lord Byron's Love Letter," is an early and preparatory piece by the current here of Broadway. The play is little more than a curious scene in the lives of two curious female inhabitants of--yes, you guessed it--New Orleans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Idler | 4/8/1948 | See Source »

...Reader Clayton had better not get his hopes up too far: Dior juggled only a few of his hemlines-and made those only an inch shorter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 15, 1948 | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...words seem necessary to focus the intention, "take but one little word of one syllable, for one is better than two; the shorter the word, the better it harmonizes with the work of the spirit. Such a word is this word GOD or this word LOVE. . . . [A single word] pierces the ears of the Almighty God, quicker than any long psalter unmindfully mumbled in the teeth. Therefore it is written that the short prayer pierces heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: With Longing Love | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

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