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...shortest, 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 to U.S. Route 5 into Meridan and onto the Wilbur Cross Parkway...
Yours was a concise, accurate and understandable explanation of an involved subject that required 36 pages and 44 illustrations in the Archives. ... It has always been my desire to tell this story in the shortest effective manner. TIME did this, and [the] sketches were better than mine...
...Some 1,200,000 copies of the Manhattan telephone directory were distributed to subscribers, including an extra supply for booths in Times Square, Grand Central and Pennsylvania Station, where the average book lasts only two days (because readers tear out the pages). Students noted the shortest listing (a firm called "A"), an increase in "atomic" listings to 35 from last year's 19, including the "Atomic Undergarment...
...break. He requested combat duty and was sent to famed Admiral Bill Halsey's staff-a piece of luck such as few fresh-water reserve officers enjoyed. But after that he made his own way. His first interview with the Admiral was one of the shortest in naval history. Growled Halsey: "Are you down here to work?" Said Stassen: "Yes, sir." That...
...list of the Queensland Turf Club. Informed that there were already 120 names on the list (and only three new bookies added each year), Wally Northcott said his son could stand to wait since he was only two days old. "My son," he explained, "was born June 21st, the shortest day of the year. I figured he would be naturally lazy, so the only thing to do was to make him a bookmaker...