Word: shortest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...copper, the mineral in shortest supply, the Japanese have signed long-term contracts for the output of mines in Canada, the Philippines, Bolivia. Australia and the Transvaal of South Africa, are now guaranteed shipments of 122,600 tons annually...
...Danish newcomer is Niels Kehlet, 27. Though he is the shortest (5 ft. 7 in.) of the male soloists, he is a man to look up to. With a flex of his coiled-spring legs, he can probably leap higher than anyone else anywhere in the world. But he has a high distaste for fame as a human jack-in-the-box. "Jumping is not an end in itself," Kehlet explains. "How you get up there and how you get back is not important. It's what you do when you're up there that counts." What...
...computer yielded some tantalizing results. Many of the Stonehenge alignments accurately pointed to the summer and winter solstice positions of the rising and setting sun and moon -the extreme north and south latitudes reached only on midsummer day and on midwinter day, the shortest day in the year. Thus, the early Britons were able to determine, for instance, that winter had started on the one day a year that the rising sun was entirely visible just on the horizon through two specific, carefully aligned arches. Additional plotting revealed that alignment of other stones had pinpointed equinoctial positions of the rising...
...frames the characters for a succession of strikingly beautiful compositions. And Kurosawa's time dilation--Macbeth and Banquo galloping endlessly in and out of the fog, or Duncan's pallbearers marching heavily up to the gates of his castle--shows the power that Hollywood in catering to the shortest common attention span, has sacrificed...
...many or as few Houses as they wish, and Masters to request as many students as they wish. Then the choices would be matched by a computer, which would also consider distribution along the traditional lines. In this way, a maximum number of choices could be handled in the shortest possible time...