Word: shortest
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...about to read the shortest senior thesis ever written at Harvard. I am submitting it to the English Department, quite unsolicited, with the hope that some famous literary scholar will take the time to read it. But I suppose there's no harm in your having a sneak peek...
DeNunzio's stellar performance throughout the weekend earned him the Sheridan Award, which is given to the wrestler who gets the most falls in the shortest amount of time...
Besides fanning the flames of identity politics, Black History Month sometimes inspires the shrill whines of those who make a living out of being oppressed. For instance, one prominent civil rights advocate has noted that the choice of February, the shortest month, is indicative of a racist culture. Never mind that February was chosen by Carter G. Woodson, the founder of Black History Month, because it includes the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln...
Writing a thesis is an involved process in any department. The English thesis is due a week before spring vacation and is capped at 40 to 60 pages, which makes it one of the shortest at the College...
...year, they did so to an old-style British "Panto," a comical take on the fairy tale "Cinderella"; a traditional "St. George and the Dragon" mummers play; lots of familiar carols and rounds, including the ceremonial "Boar's Head Carol" from Oxford; Susan Cooper's classic solstice poem "The Shortest Day" and a spectacular rendition of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" you'll never forget. And, as always, Revels audiences are kept busy, singing carols with the cast and at the end of Act I, dancing out of the theater, hand-in-hand, into the grand lobby of Memorial Hall...