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Word: shortly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fitz came to the plate again and knocked in two runs with a single. Petrillo was run down between second and third and Fitz advanced to second on Ayres again reached on an time at short, and Coppinger the bases, but the inning bounced out, short...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nine Sinks Tufts, 5-2, Loses to Eagles, 4-1 | 5/2/1946 | See Source »

...Short, rotund Professor Paul Joseph Sachs, a present-day inheritor of Norton's mantle, considers the Fogg's Pre-Raphaelite possessions just as fascinating as they are vapid, but tells his students that they should be considered in relation to the literature of their day. No one could deny that Rossetti's sickly sweet Blessed Damozel (see cut) seemed a little better on reading his verses inscribed on the frame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Victorian Surrealists | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...Upper Park Avenue, a bright-colored, schoolboyish splash by New York's Representative Joseph Clark Baldwin. Said Socialite Joe Baldwin: "[Painting] takes a very short time actually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sideshow | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

Ultrasonic Shrimp. As" one means of detecting enemy submarines, the Navy used sonar, a device which bounced off them beams of sound waves too short for reception by the human ear. But in subtropical waters a kind of shrimp interfered: the snapping of their claws made these same "ultrasonic" sounds. Enemy submarines, the Navy feared, might hide behind this interference. As it turned out, "ultrasonic" shrimp did not exist where German U-boats most commonly cruised; but the)' did live in the waters off Japan, and U.S. submarines hid from listening Japanese behind the noise of the shrimps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Davy Jones's Sound Effects | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

Dead Issue. In Rio de Janeiro, two widows met for the first time at a funeral parlor, had a short talk, then a good cry. Reason: they mourned the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 29, 1946 | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

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