Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...figure falls 462 short of 1948's 2,405 total. Last year's high-vote total came in a re-election created by an error in voting procedure in the original balloting...
...McInnis influence was clearly visible to the naked eye. In the fifth inning, Steve Howe took a line drive in short right field and overthrew first, trying for a double play. In the old style of play, this would have meant at least a two-base advance for the runner. Not so this year, apparently. Catcher Cliff Crosby appeared to catch the throw intact, as it were, and the situation remained under control...
Ninety percent of Leverett House members opened their wallets for the drive, but the $790 sum is $110 short of the $900 goal originally set by Chairman Richard G. Neisser...
That, at present, is the story, and it's unlikely to change much between now and April 23. Bolles doesn't guarantee this, but time is short, and is was not until this week that the boats have been hitting a racing beat over the mile and three quarters racing course...
Denis Fodor's short story, "The Fall of Barkutzan," is clearly the best piece of writing in the lot, and perhaps the best story the Advocate has published all year. Fodor manages to contrast effectively the earthy playfulness of a carnival crowd in a little Czechoslovakian village with the ominous arrival of the news of the Gottwald coup...