Word: shortest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...airplanes (trainers and Curtiss Hawk fighters). Now the British wish that more of India's industries were on the west coast, fewer on and near the Bay of Bengal's vulnerable shoreline. India's industrial prizes, in the Calcutta area, lie at the end of the shortest sea and air route from Burma...
...lines of communication which are so monstrously extended that our navies and our shipping cannot possibly be adequate. At the same time, for political reasons, we are not concentrating our force for effective action in the one theater of the war, namely western Europe, where our communications are the shortest, the strategic position the most favorable and the gains to be obtained by strong action in conjunction with Russia the largest and the most immediate...
...Tallest team on earth" is a big boast. But Al Baggett, basketball coach at West Texas State Teachers College, has a just claim. The tallest man on his team towers 6 ft. 10; the shortest 6 ft. 2. The team's average...
...much easier to reach Newell now than at anytime. You merely take the shortest route and venture across the the Charles, which is shorter in yardage, but it is questionable whether the impromptu hockey game which rage over its frozen surface are less of a hazard to navigation than the traffic over the Andreson bridge...
...flash in the pan. But horsemen have a hunch that Sab will be even more remarkable as a three-year-old than he was at two. In the winter book for next spring's Kentucky Derby, he was quoted last week a 3-to-1 favorite, shortest odds ever quoted so early in the year...