Word: shorters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another alleged nation declared war on the U.S. and Britain last week: Japan's puppet government of the Philippines, headed by "President" José Laurel, one-time Supreme Court justice. He had cause to fear that his term might be growing shorter...
Average hospital stay of insulin patients was 3.8 months shorter than for the others...
Shirley Temple, 16, in Manhattan on a bond-selling tour, revived memories of her youth on her first trip to the city in six years. Said she: "New York looked different then. I think the buildings looked taller, but maybe it's because I was shorter." She teamed up with her oldtime dancing partner Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson to do a shim-sham-shimmy before 50,000 in Central Park. Exclaimed modest Miss Temple: "I haven't done this since I was seven, so excuse me if I'm not so hot." Said Robinson: "Honey, you haven...
...last the Finnish nation had learned tragically what Leon Trotsky meant when he said: "The Finnish General Staff should stop measuring the distance from Helsinki to Leningrad, because the distance from Leningrad to Helsinki will always be shorter...
...newspaper supply ran even shorter of demand than usual. Clubs and study groups swamped the Moscow Lecture Bureau with requests for Second Front speakers. More than one comrade puzzled over the map of France in the British Embassy's publication, Britanski Soyusnik (British Ally). On it the English Channel appeared as "Angliski Canal." Russians, accustomed to the French "La Manche,"asked: "When did the English build the canal between themselves and France...