shortweight
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Since the power to license is the power to reform, Commissioner Moss, who is as notable for his integrity as for his dapper dress, lost no time suppressing shortweight ice dealers, market racketeers, dirty magazine publishers.
From Time Magazine Archive
That he "sold shortweight coal in Denver, blackmailing and browbeating customers."
From Time Magazine Archive
Heywood Broun: ". . . . emotionally shortweight."
From Time Magazine Archive
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