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Word: shortly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although work on the winter track squad will be confined for the most part to short workouts during the midyear examination period, time trials in all events will be run off this afternoon. According to the schedule of track practice, time trials are held every Saturday afternoon throughout the year except on days when meets are scheduled, thus enabling Coach E. L. Farrell to check up on the improvement of various members of the squad as the season progresses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FARRELL SELECTS 45 MEN FOR ANNUAL K. OF C. MEET | 1/19/1929 | See Source »

...covered will be from June 1, 1928 to the date of the examination, and the type of examination will be similar to those of previous years. Tentative arrangements provide sets of true-false questions and identity questions to be answered in one hour, and a group of short summaries in "editorial style" not exceeding some 250 words each on eight or ten questions to be selected from a designated list and to be written in two hours. The latter arrangement is intended to replace the "essay topics" that have formed part of previous examinations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIMES CURRENT EVENTS CONTEST IS NEXT MONTH | 1/18/1929 | See Source »

...party, winning for it the confidence of the people of the State. Later he was called to Washington as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, where he had his share in the handling of peculiarly difficult war-time problems. Then came an attack of illness, after which he cut short his convalescence in order to take up the fight for his party in the campaign of 1928. His own victory in a year of overwhelming Democratic defeat cannot be interpreted otherwise than as a remarkable personal tribute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CHIEF MARSHAL | 1/16/1929 | See Source »

...dishing it up in various guises for a week. She laughed till her false teeth-if you ever beheld 'em!-fell down. Every time I think of convents, it renews my faith in human laughter. FATHER WILL WHALEN Old Jesuit Mission, Orrtanna, Pa. Father Whalen recently wrote a short story about a mediocre actress, popular in small towns. It was labeled "Twinkle, Little Star" and appeared in the New York Daily News (tabloid).-ED. Marching Yorkers

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 14, 1929 | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...Taplin brothers of Cleveland want the Wheeling, as they do the Western Maryland, to hook up with their short Pittsburgh & West Virginia and form a private Lakes-to-Ocean coal road. So they demanded that the I. C. C. forbid the B. & O., N. Y. Central and Van Sweringens to own the Wheeling. The I. C. C. last week continued to cogitate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Eastern R. R. Consolidation | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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