Word: shorters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sturdy, well armed, and round-bottomed to wallow over the waves rather than cut through them, the Angry is a queer duck to be flying a U.S. ensign. Her 206-ft. length is shorter than a destroyer's, longer than most cutters'. In the Royal Navy, for which she was built in 1940, she was classed as a corvette. When Britain gave the ship and five others like her to the U.S. last March, the U.S. Navy quickly changed her name and classed her with gunboats, since the U.S. has no corvette class...
...William Lyon Mackenzie King took steps to cut down drinking. He announced sharp reductions in the alcoholic content of beer and liquors-beer by 10%, wine by 20%, spirits by 30%. He also forbade all advertising of beer and liquors after a six weeks' adjustment period, asked for shorter selling hours in liquor stores...
Greater magnification is possible because electron waves are shorter than light waves. Highest magnification requires shortest possible electron waves, hence higher voltage. The portable models sacrifice extreme magnification, but R.C.A. gives 5,000 diameters, G.E. 10,000 (compared to 2,000 useful upper limit in the best microscopes using light waves). Both can be "blown up" photographically to give in effect 100,000 diameters or more. The G.E. instrument, developed by Dr. Simon Ramo and Dr. Charles H. Bachman, has a horizontal system, is 52 inches high, operates on a 110-volt light circuit, The R.C.A. model, only 16 inches...
There is no medical treatment for the disease except careful nursing and hospitalization, Bock said. It may last from several weeks in those of College age, to months in older people, though if the discase is caught early it is usually of shorter duration...
Frost first read his "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Night" to illustrate the truth of this thesis, and from that point the readings went largely whenever the poet's fancy took him. "West Running Brook" and two shorter poems followed in order...