Word: brief
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Usage makes good English. Professor Wendell found it one of his tasks to impress the fact that usage does not require the sanction of generations to become "good usage" and therefore good English. He never professed horror at such a venial offence as a split infinitive. He was, in brief, eminently a man of common sense...
Sinci his arrival in this country about three weeks ago, Dr. Lobo has given several brief addresses before various societies in New York and Washington. He is the first of a number of visiting lecturers on South American subjects who will come to the University during the remainder of the year...
...After a brief survey of the history of the philosophic theories out of which the present form of psychical research has grown, Dr. Hyslop stated thus the question before the psychical research worker today: "Can we find consciousness disassociated from physical organism?" Professor Royce indicated in several of his reports between 1885 and 1887 that from the mass of evidence before him, in his connection with the Society of Psychical Research, that the spirit appears in the form of apparitions after death...
...assured in the first process: from that time on the way would be easier. However, he was not to go further, his life was demanded as the ultimate payment for his services to industry and his country. But he died a winner in the game of life. In his brief 24 years he had gone where very few are destined to go in their whole life; along unexplored paths where he could satisfy his desire for truly constructive work...
Coach Robinson in continuing draws a brief comparison of the two elevens...