Word: shorters
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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...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...