Word: shorters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winning time not only clipped seconds off the old upstream record set by Spike Chase's crew in 1941, but it also demolished a 17-year-old downstream record established over a slightly shorter course. Which means, in short, that the Crimson has an even more excellent crew than usual this year, a crew which must be considered the overwhelming favorite to retain the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges 2,000 meter sprint championships at Syracuse this Saturday...
...total of 199 men were tried: 36 were sentenced to death by hanging; 22 got life; 103 got shorter sentences; 38 were acquitted; five committed suicide before the end of their trial...
Report from Barber Frederick Harvey, whose shop gives George Bernard Shaw a haircut about four times a year: "Mr. Shaw is getting a little thin on top now, but is still remarkably thick at the sides. He is wearing his beard a little shorter than he used to, but I am never allowed to touch his eyebrows." Shaw likes to chat, and even lets the barber get a word in occasionally, but when the talk begins to bore him, he starts tapping his fingertips together. "I know the sign," says Harvey, "and I shut...
...people also want material advantages for their labor, he said. Labor strikes for steady employment at higher wages, shorter hours, and more comfortable working conditions. The public, Dr. Compton said, wants the quality of goods to go up and the price to go down. Business wants higher profits. People was better housing and better health. Governments, in our expanding civilization, need more tax money...
Wall Street Economist Nicholas Molodovsky of White, Weld & Co. finally took the bull by the horns. Quoth he: "Stock prices are still engaged in a long-term basic cyclical decline. Yet I also believe that, within a shorter segment of time, we are now at the inception of a significant intermediate rise...