Word: shorters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mark Tuttle put on a great kick to cross the finish line for the Crimson in the shorter three mile Jayvee race...
...nothing if it issued greenbacks. Moreover, a 2¼% longer term issue would not have been out of line with current Government bond yields. But the Treasury feared that if it put out such an issue just now investors in the future might demand this higher rate on shorter maturities. This would jack up the price of money all around and might-so the argument runs-unsettle the market for existing Government obligations...
...Fiji native is as black as his New Guinea cousin and wears the same unsanitary mop of fuzzy black hair, but usually shorter. He was the last of the Melanesians in that race's eastward sweep across the Pacific. But the Fiji native is in danger of losing his majority on his islands. When the idle Fiji would not cultivate the sugar fields assiduously, the British went to India for recruits. That was about 65 years ago. So prodigiously do Indians breed that there are now 94,000 Indians to 102,000 Fijis, 2,000 Chinese, 5,000 Europeans...
Should tastes and modes of expression change, perhaps the letters will lose their force, perhaps jazz will lose its force. After the war there's no telling. But for the short period that jazz will have run its course, and the even shorter period that you have known it, jazz will have been its own justification for being. In spite of misunderstanding and ignorance, you will still have a rich experience to remember, for which you will envy no man and pity many for not having...
...they know there is a war? They asked me silly questions such as do I use powder and rouge and nail polish and do I curl my hair? One reporter even criticized the length of the skirt of my uniform, saying that in America women wear shorter skirts and besides my uniform made me look...