Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brought every bit of this amateur development to an abrupt halt. The thousands of amateurs over the country, had made themselves proficient radio operators, and when our Army and Navy in 1917 awoke to the situation, they found that hundreds of radio operators were wanted immediately. To train this number of men up from the condition of a raw recruit meant months and months of work, even though the training facilities were organized, which they were not. And so an appeal was made to the amateurs of the country through their national organization. To the everlasting glory of these splendid...
...spirited, if abrupt, review of Mr. Mencken's new anthology of Prejudices, the magazine makes healthful music. The Editorials reveal a temperate pulse; they concern undergraduates; they do not fall to charm our graver blood. And though we miss the Brief Case, with its crisp, incisive commentary on Harvard happenings, there is no pause...