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Word: shortest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Result: frantic scrambles not only in Mexico City but throughout the land as the nation's ill-equipped photographers slaved and sweated night and day to turn out 600,000 likenesses on shortest notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: 600,000 Snaps | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

...recent British newspaper contest to dis cover the great personage who has the shortest title and address, the winner pointed out that to address correctly and respectfully an envelope to King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy requires the expenditure of but eight letters from which are formed three words: IL RE ROMA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Momentous Question | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

...Lake. The basis of the rumors about Arthur Curtiss James was the fact that he is Chairman of the Western Pacific, as well as being identified with the Burlington. The Moffat tunnel would link the Burlington, via the D. R. G. W., with the Western Pacific into the second shortest transcontinental route-the shortest being the Southern Pacific plus Union Pacific plus Chicago & Northwestern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Portal to Nowhere | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

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