: Short, tight, athletic shorts also known as " racing briefs ", commonly made from spandex and / or nylon.

Short shorts also refers to the older style of tight basketball shorts which went upper-thigh worn by players until the 1990s, when looser shorts that went down to the knee became the norm.

Short weapons, such as the ubiquitous seax, could also be used in the tight quarters of the wall.

* Short trousers ( British English ) or school shorts

Shortly thereafter, de Havilland Canada from Boeing, Short Brothers and Learjet operations were added.

Short and rather inexplicit passages concerning religious images, were to have great impact on the development of Catholic art.

Short term enlistments were abandoned and the Dragoons joined for three years, or " the war ".

During this time, several works were dedicated to Oxford, Geoffrey Gates ' Defense of Military Profession and Anthony Munday's Mirror of Mutability in 1579, and John Hester's A Short Discourse.

Short subjects were made by yet another affiliated company, The Vitaphone Corporation ( which took its name from the sound process ).

Jordanes also recounted how Priscus had described Attila the Hun, the Emperor of the Huns from 434-453, as: " Short of stature, with a broad chest and a large head ; his eyes were small, his beard thin and sprinkled with grey ; and he had a flat nose and tanned skin, showing evidence of his origin.

North American holdings were listed by Frederick R. Goff and a worldwide union catalogue is provided by the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue.

In 1995, Nigel Short and Polgár were to play a game using the famous chess set, but British Museum refused.

Short names such as BM-8 or BM-13 were used too.

The most successful pulp magazines were Argosy, Adventure, Blue Book and Short Stories described by some pulp historians as " The Big Four ".

Though Ashburn and Roberts were gone, younger pitchers Art Mahaffey, Chris Short, and rookie Ray Culp ; veterans Jim Bunning and screwballer Jack Baldschun ; and fan favorites Cookie Rojas, Johnny Callison, and NL Rookie of the Year Richie Allen brought the team within a hairsbreadth of the World Series in 1964 after strong showings in 1962 and 1963.

Two documentary films by Bert Haanstra for which his father wrote the scenarios were nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Feature, one won a Golden Bear for Short Film.

An influential arena for the great split screen movies of the 1960s were two world's fairs-the 1964 New York World's Fair, where Ray and Charles Eames had a 17-screen film they created for IBM's " Think " Pavilion ( it included sections with race car driving ) and the 3-division film To Be Alive, by Francis Thompson, which won the Academy Award that year for Best Short.

Short, one-handed spears featuring socketed metal heads were used in conjunction with a shield by the earliest Bronze Age cultures.

By the end of the season, Short had issued an ultimatum: unless someone was willing to buy the Senators for $ 12 million ( in comparison, the New York Yankees were sold in 1973 for $ 8. 8 million ), he would not proceed to renew the stadium lease and move the team elsewhere.

These acts were largely ineffective and after radical agitation, by for example the " Short Time Committees " in 1831, a Royal Commission recommended in 1833 that children aged 11 – 18 should work a maximum of 12 hours per day, children aged 9 – 11 a maximum of eight hours, and children under the age of nine should no longer be permitted to work.

Short term gains were often made by selling the farms equipment.

Ten days after the attack, Lt. General Short and Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, commander of the Navy at Pearl Harbor, were both relieved of their duties.

Based on native testimony and archaeological research, he claimed the island was originally colonized by Hanau eepe (" Long Ears "), from South America, and that Polynesians Hanau momoko (" Short Ears ") arrived only in the mid-16th century ; they may have come independently or perhaps were imported as workers.

Short line-shaft systems were described by Agricola, connecting a waterwheel to numerous ore-processing machines.

Alfred Hitchcock had planned to direct Deneuve in a screen adaptation of the spy novel The Short Night, but by the time the project was ready to go into production, Hitchcock was unable to direct due to his poor health, and plans for the film were scrapped.

Parnall received large orders from the Admiralty to build aircraft designed by other manufacturers, principally the Avro 504 and Short Admiralty Type 827 ( of which 20 were built ).

Neither the Pike nor its rival, the Short Sturgeon, were developed further.

From 1936 until 1956 there were two separate awards, " Best Short Subject, One-reel " and " Best Short Subject, Two-reel ".

Short, full petticoats in the 1950s style are also commonly worn by squaredancers.

The way dhotis are worn represents backgrounds and castes: Short dhotis represent low status whereas long dhotis represent high status.

Short Māori cloaks are sometimes worn by senior officers as a mark of distinction on occasions of special ceremony, though they are not part of the regulation uniform.

Scharpling later purchased the suit worn by Short in Clifford via an eBay auction.

The glorious news had been held up pending Heavenly confirmation of the elevation of a new Supreme Bishop, Huey Short -- a candidate accepted by the Boone faction after lots had been cast repeatedly.

* Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories, Hardcover, 243 pages, Published 1985 by Dodd, Mead NY, ISBN 0-396-08747-7 includes 20 from 4 sets: The Tuesday Club Murders, The Regatta Mystery, Three Blind Mice and Other Stories, and Double Sin and Other Stories.

* Short story, The Passion Considered as an Uphill Bicycle Race ( La Passion considérée comme course de côte ), has been widely circulated and imitated, notably by J. G.

* Arthur Berry, A Short History of Astronomy ( John Murray, 1898 – republished by Dover, 1961 ), 258-265.

Short Mat Bowls is an all-year sport unaffected by weather conditions and it does not require a permanent location as the rink mats can be rolled up and stowed away.

Short transitional periods, which are marked by some difference in humidity but by little change in temperature, intervene between the alternating seasons.

* Short documentary on Australian research into limits on carbon uptake by trees

* The Monologue Man ( played by Chris Morris ): Short stories, often up to 10 minutes in length, written from the perspective of a lonely and socially inept man.

They then developed an intermediate-power cartridge round, which was accomplished by reducing the power and the length of the standard 7. 92x57 Mauser rifle cartridge to create the 7. 92x33 Kurz ( Short ) cartridge.

It was the Short Range Committee, chaired by Joseph Wegstein of the US National Bureau of Standards, that during the following months created a description of the first version of COBOL.

A Short Account of Scots Divines, by him, was printed at Edinburgh in 1833, edited by James Maidment.

Austin Film Festival is accredited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences ®, making all Jury Award-winning Narrative Short and Animated Short films eligible for an Academy Award ®.

Category: Short stories by Larry Niven

Short pieces of double-stranded RNA ( short, interfering RNAs or siRNAs ) are used by cells to degrade RNA of a particular sequence.

* Short History of the Hebrew Language by Chaim Menachem Rabin

The assumption of the crown in 751 by Pepin the Short ( son of Charles Martel ) established the Carolingian dynasty as the Kings of the Franks.

Fictions referred to as " lime " are ones in which the characters do everything short of having sexual intercourse with each other .< ref name =" Short History ">" A Short History of < nowiki >'</ nowiki > Hentai < nowiki >'</ nowiki >", by Mark McLelland, Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context, Issue 12, January 2006.

Category: Short stories by J. D. Salinger