Word: shorters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father came to his hospital bed again and asked him to put aside the comics book he was reading. It was time for a man-to-man talk. Howard Richey's voice was unsteady: "Dale, you'll be able to play again ... but your legs will be shorter . . . your feet had to be taken off ... you'll have to learn to walk all over again...
What hitherto has been going under the title of The Society for the Preservation of Free Enterprise, will now be known by its new shorter name of The Free Enterprise Society, Loring M. Staples, Jr. '50, newly-elected secretary of the organization, announced last night...
...Alexander Hamilton discovered that a character obtained in New Jersey offered certain advantages to the rising young magnate, the working rules of society have been shaped by business men. As industrial relationships became more complex and more impersonal, labor found that even though its greater productivity justified higher wages, shorter hours, and more consideration for workers as individuals, its demands were blocked by archaic social and legal structures, adapted to an era of elipper ships and water wheels...
...independent people, if we still are, the shorter the occupation term is, the happier we are. Fortunately, General MacArthur favors an early withdrawal of occupation troops to the disheartening of Miss Yoko's un-Japanese feeling...
Despite a limp (one leg is shorter than the other), he has rolled more perfect (300) games, 68 in all, than anyone else. He can and does bowl with either hand, with both at the same time, with his foot. In Detroit, where bowling goes biggest in the U.S., he gets $900 a week when he puts on exhibitions. Says he: "If I'd been a golfer, I would have putted with precision. As a bowler, I am a master of rhythm." Varipapa's confidence is unbruised by the fact that in 16 tries he has never...