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Word: shortly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entire first half, except for a brief Crimson spurt toward the end. Trailing 24-22 with five minutes to go, the varsity began to utilize a good fast break and pulled ahead, 30 to 25. But the Bruins quickly closed the gap, and went off at halftime on the short end of a 32-31 score...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Brown Quintet Defeats Crimson After Trailing During First Half | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...lean, 68-year-old law professor's Christian Democrats are 25 votes short of a majority in the Chamber of Deputies. They have 274 seats. Even with the support promised by the Liberals, with 17 seats, Segni would be eight votes shy. The Monarchists are split in two parties with a total of 25 votes...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Dulles' Return Remains Possible After Treatment Against Cancer; Segni to Head Italian Ministry | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

Hammond's win in the fly, after nearly coming off a sick bed to do so, pointed up a magnificent team display. Trailing for most of the race, the varsity captain drove with a tremendous push for the final lap to pass Baker short of the finish...

Author: By Thomas M. Pepper, | Title: Swimming Team Defeats Indians; Yardlings Set Six New Records | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...warning to U.S. allies that they are making their countries potential Russian targets by harboring U.S. bases. The point was made doubly clear by the boast of Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky (see FOREIGN NEWS) that U.S.S.R. missiles could strike anywhere on earth, and that U.S. missiles were "too short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Question of Faith | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

Looking across the border to Soviet Armenia, Turkish natives saw a huge plume of smoke rising from the Communist territory. On that same day-Sept. 2, 1958 -just short minutes before the smoke rose, Allied radio monitors around the southern ring of the U.S.S.R., taping their daily quota of Russian radio talk, recorded the grim conversation of five Soviet jet fighter pilots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: How They Died | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

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