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...Shortest nine-inning game on record: the 51-minute game between the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Phillies, Sept. 28, 1919, which the Giants won, 6 to 1. Batteries: New York, Jess Barnes and Earl Smith. Philadelphia, Lee Meadows and John B. Adams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Speed-Up | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...Those residents who have lived in Perkins, Conant, or Divinity Halls for the shortest length of time will get first rating in this category over other residents. The Dean's Office believes, however, that a sufficient number of rooms has been set aside for men in the resident category to take care of everyone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deans Announce Priority Listings For Grad Dorms | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...Bulldogs are one of the tallest teams the freshmen have run into; Yale's shortest man measures five feet, ten inches. Three of the Eli starters are over six feet four...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '53 Five Opposes Taller Yale Today | 3/11/1950 | See Source »

...shortest and fastest route to the game site is over Route 9 (Worcester Turnpike) from Boston to Route 20 outside Framingham, then to Route 15 to the Charter Oak toll bridge. This leads to U.S. Route 5 into Meridan, Conn., and onto the Wilbur Cross Parkway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's Easy to Travel to New Haven | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

George Bernard Shaw's Buoyant Billions, his first new play in almost a decade, closed in London after a five-week run-the shortest a new Shaw play has ever had in the West End. "Well," he shrugged, "I shall lose no sleep over it." To an inquiring newsman who ventured to hope that 93-year-old Shaw was well, G.B.S. snapped: "At my age, young man, you are either well or dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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