Word: shorters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cosmic eye this particular universe -the Milky Way-is a wispy thing, a puff of tiny particles which are billions of stars. Somewhat disk-shaped, it floats in space, spinning on its shorter axis. The sun is one of these stars, located some four-fifths of the way out from center of the universe toward the edge. At that point its spinning motion is 155 miles per second, yet it takes 200 million years to round the circuit. Ten times the earth has been around, clinging to the sun, from which, scientists believe, the earth spun off two billion years...
...scarcely possible that the Eighth Army had received anything like the reinforcement that Rommel had got over shorter supply lines which the British had been unable to sever. To Rommel from Crete had flown a complete German infantry division - the 146th. From Italy, a full infantry division. Also reported in the desert were German and Italian parachute troops, and on hand were two veteran Panzer divisions and Rommel's tough, veteran 19th light motorized infantry division. One estimate of his strength: 125,000 to 140,000 men, rested and equipped...
...Many tank cars now highballing the long 2,000-mile run from Texas to New England could be loaded with the same oil pumped from Texas to the Midwest through pipelines. The shorter haul would cut car mileage by half, turn-around time by at least 25%; thus help the railroads step up their deliveries from last week's 837,000 barrels daily to better than a million...
August was slipping away, and with it Germany's chance of a decisive victory. There was still time, but the time grew shorter. German gains had been great-Rostov, the last of the Ukraine, the northern Caucasus-but not yet great enough to make 1942 Hitler's big year. Russian losses had been staggering-the last of the Donets Basin industrial area, control of the River Don, some of the oil and most of the wheat of the Caucasus-but not heavy enough to smash the Red Army. On the thunderous, smoky southern front the chips were still...
...American Culture, edited after her death by Critic Van Wyck Brooks, includes eight essays. One examines the esthetic opinions of Founding Fathers Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, John Adams, and the culture of their time. One is an almost book-length study of the early American theater. One is a shorter companion piece on music. One is about the Shakers, who became "a folk" in one generation, then all but died out, due to their insistence on celibacy, in another. There are minor pieces on Negro tradition, folklore, the early U.S. genre painter Voltaire Combe, and the possible future of American...