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Word: shorters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shorter stories, "The Vigil," by William A. Emerson, is neat and subdued, creating atmosphere in a small space. In "Kenneth," A. K. Lowis has satirized the slick magazine story by substituting grotesque animals for the even more grotesque creatures that inhabit the originals. The result is almost pointless, but delightful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Shelf | 3/27/1947 | See Source »

Calvinism was once virtually the American Faith. It came to New England with the Puritans, to New York with the Dutch Reformed, to Pennsylvania with the German Reformed. And wherever Scottish Presbyterians went in the U.S., predestination, 90-minute sermons, and the "Shorter Catechism" went with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Calvinist Comeback? | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

Alfred Boley, counterman of the Meredith roadhouse where he claimed serving Gardiner and a shorter companion on January 28, examined battery rosters of the 97th New Hampshire National Guard, in an unsuccessful effort to identify the second man who called the employee "an old Leyte buddy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: N.H. Troopers Still Hunting For Gardiner | 2/15/1947 | See Source »

Hitting the basket in the second half for 27 points, Coach Hal Kopp's Jayvee quintet swamped a shorter Suffolk University squad 45 to 27 in the Indoor Athletic Building last night. High scorer for the Crimson was Frank Bixler, who netted the opening tally of the game and went on to rack up 16 points before the final horn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jayvee Hoopmen Pummel Suffolk University, 45-27 | 2/6/1947 | See Source »

...Sunday it was obvious that the story on Georgia's gubernatorial confusion, which kept expanding, would need plenty of space for the telling. So several other stories were edited down to make room for it, and others re-written in shorter form. The crash of a Navy plane in California fitted into the story on air safety, and was placed there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 3, 1947 | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

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