Word: brief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...city in the U. S. as large as Washington. He has had a good influence in the profession, but he has done no monumental work, has made no serious contribution to our knowledge, through a period of years that has seen tremendous advances in ophthalmology. Though I hold no brief for any one of them, there are several men in this country who have been leaders in this movement-among them Dr. de Schweinitz, who gets honorable mention being "also the son of a bishop." A gift of four million dollars, the reward of a fashionable practice, may carry with...
Chairs in Harvard dormitories fell over. Boston citizens were alarmed. Cape Cod sea captains left their pinochle, when the severest earthquake the east had felt for many years jarred seismographs from Halifax to Manhattan. Most noticeable in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, the brief temblor was not felt in Manhattan, everywhere did little damage...
...last lecture of the series, the concept of the cosmoplasma will be developed. It is at once the most mysterious and most fundamental part of the universe, and only recently has come under direct experimental study. In brief, it is the substratum of materials throughout the universe, between planets, stars, and galaxies, that has no obvious systematic organization. Hence it includes such diverse constituents as the high speed shooting stars, interstellar calcium gas, and radiation itself...
...Walt Whitman", a brief biography of the poet by C. J. Furness, has just been issued by the Harvard University Press, as one of its November publications. The story of the poet during the last years of his life, and of his work, is covered briefly in one small volume...
...fact that it is of substantial value to the United States that assets of an insolvent debtor should be distributed in an equity receivership rather than in bankruptcy. To other creditors, on the other hand, it is advantageous that it should be done in bankruptcy. The article suggests a brief statute by which the differences could be eradicated...