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...John E. McCarthy, Safety Officer, said, "we understand about the shortest distance between two points and all that, but we are concerned about the students' complete disregard for city and state regulations." Failure to signal and observe one-way restrictions have created the most serious problems in the past...
...wordwise, science by far outdoes slang in supplying neologisms. Chemistry alone accounts for 17,000 words, culled from 250,000 new derivatives since 1934. Medicine yields the longest word, topping antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters) with pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45), a lung disease afflicting miners. Conversely, one of the shortest words, set, requires the longest definition -more than a full page, which took one editor 6½ weeks to write...
...haggling, the Six took at least a half step toward greater political cooperation. The government heads empowered the Six's standing committee of diplomats to draw up proposals "on ways and means to give the union of their peoples a statutory character within the shortest time." Such a "European statute" was to give the Market's political character "form and framework...
...House on Coliseum Street, by Shirley Ann Grau. The emotional breakup of a young girl beset by a sordid family and a squalid love affair is told in the author's effective, indirect style, which proves that the shortest distance between fact and feeling is not necessarily a straight line...
...puddle of frozen gutter water, the fears of adulthood suggested by the sharp, metallic smell of a nearly defunct streetcar line. The method can be tedious, but in her second novel, New Orleans-born Author Grau proves again that in the hands of a first-rate storyteller the shortest route between fact and feeling is not necessarily the straight line...