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...first turn, Lawrence Hanover. As the horses trotted into the first leg of the V-shaped backstretch, the crowd groaned because Warwell Worthy had opened up a gap of 15 lengths. Although Greyhound was almost the same distance ahead of the rest, it looked as if the shortest priced Hambletonian favorite in years was now doomed to lose the heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hambletonian | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

...compete. Experience has shown that without dunking a doughnut is dry eating and may become lodged in the digestive tract. The recent remarkable reductions in time have been due to an improved technique of motion that brings the doughnut from the coffee cup to the mouth in the shortest possible arc. Let us forget our gastronomic niceties for a bit. If one of our number is successful it may signify the beginning of an athletic renaissance. In any event, if doughnuts for breakfast have been substituted for hockey rinks we should not look the gift horse in the face. Appreciation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD AWAKEI | 3/8/1935 | See Source »

Last week's crop of prophecies was the shortest in years. Five years of defeat, frustration and ridicule had taught businessmen to avoid mouth-filling generalities, to stick to harmless forecasts about their own industries. Samples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Prophets | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

Hardest hit by Drought were corn and oats-both the shortest crops since 1881. Two years ago the corn crop was 2,900,000,000 bu., worth $560,000,000 at a farm price of less than 20? per bu. This year the harvest was only 1,380,000,000 bu. At an average price of 78? per bu. it was valued at more than $1,000,000,000. The oat crop was less than one-half that of 1932 but the farm price had jumped from 13? to 52? per bu. and total value increased in two years from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cash Crops | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

...capacity of the entrants will be tested by consuming a liter of the beverage in the shortest possible time. The man who succeeds in downing the amount permanently in the least number of seconds will be proclaimed the winner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Beer Capacity to Undergo Survey Next Month | 12/15/1934 | See Source »

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