Word: abrupt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Divine were sunk in the Sea of Galilee, it would displace more water than any of them. It owes its cubic capacity to one austere little man-Bishop William Thomas Manning of New York. When he succeeded to the see in 1921, St. John's consisted of an abrupt stub: a Romanesque choir and crossing. Bishop Manning (with the aid of professional Money Raisers Tamblyn & Brown) infected New York City with a cathedral-building itch, scratched up some $15,000,000, transformed his Romanesque stub into a soaring Gothic pile. Bishop Manning will be remembered as a cathedral builder...
...Channel from Calais to Dover (22 mi.) is a project discussed since Napoleon's time, repeatedly vetoed by Britain* lest it bring an invader from the Continent. Last week both Britain and France might have devoutly thanked God for such a passageway had it been bombproof. After the abrupt surrender of Belgian King Leopold (see p. 32), some 600,000 survivors of the northern Allied Armies were locked in a triangular trap between the Lys River, the Artois Hills and the North Sea (see map). As 800,000 Germans on the ground and thousand more in the sky relentlessly...
...fees, which it would probably be forced to do because of its rigid budget. But, principle or no principle, the students are willing to pay for what they want, and are well organized and determined to get it. This is the first plea to receive more than an abrupt "No!" In no sense a whim, or mere nagging at the University, it is based on the fact that at present Chemistry concentrators are barred from practically all extra-curricular activities by time limitations. It's time they got a break...
...important is the student's desire for a change, since it will be up to him to accept or reject and to prove the success or failure of any new plan. After due consideration of what has gone before, all that can be said for these proposals is an abrupt "Next"! No doubt, plenty of "nexts" will answer...
What TIME wants is immediate action in the form of a loan to Finland. One feature of Democracy is this very slowness with which official bodies take action. A feature of Fascism is abrupt action on critical matters such as this...