Word: shortness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short day the varsity end muddle was pretty definitely cleared up with the elevation of Joe Koufman to a first-string flank post as Loren MacKinney's running mate, but the satisfaction of Dick Harlow and his aids was short lived when a headache kept Koufman out of all action yesterday...
Captain Torbic Macdonald removed any doubt concerning his fitness to start in Saturday's tilt. He participated in a short scrimmage session, which found the A team taking the defensive and dished out a couple of hard tackles to scrub ball carriers...
...support the "Cash and Carry System;" to restrict short term credits and to prohibit all long term credits...
...enclose the word in inverted commas because the book is in fact crowded with theories which are carefully to be distinguished from the stuff of doctoral theses. Mr. Van Doren's comment on Falstaff's style is a case in point: "(Falstaff) being old and fat, he is short of breath and so must be brief of phrase . . . He has made the most of this limitation. Artist that he is, he has accepted its challenge and employed it in effects that express his genius with a notable and economical directness. His speech then is not merely brief; it is repetitive...
...Macdonald went through the entire session, which lasted more than two hours, and seems in close to perfect shape for the heavy assignment he has waiting for him in the Stadium. He whipped off several nice passes during the practice, while Franny Lee, his substitute contributed a number of short bullet heaves that may puzzle the Penn defense