Word: brief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time since its February debut, the Placement Office's job conference bit a brief note of optimism last night when Claude M. Fuess and Wade L. Grindle told an Eliot House audience that the "door to independent and public school teaching is wide open...
...argument that the magazine should be thought of as a Harvard enterprise. Though denying that more percentage figures could be the determinant, the Administration pretty clearly based their public case on figures and figures alone. In so doing, they left out a crucial function in magazine work: editing. A brief soon to be filed with the Council by the New Student's editors proves quite conclusively that this work was handled entirely by undergraduates, who determined what stories were wanted, solicited these articles from writers of their own choice, and edited the copy when it arrived. In some cases, articles...
...desk, all the panjandrums and small fry of big labor's leadership showed in full force. They were from the previously-hostile CIO, AFL, and powerful independent unions such as the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the International Association of Machinists. Phil Murray was present sub rosa for a brief few hours Saturday in one of those up-stairs rooms. William Green made his first appearance before any political convention, on the same platform with Walter Reuther at that; Reuther's biting oratory forced this caricature of an oligarch to struggle hard, through fumbling fighting improvisations upon the stale prepared...
...vain attempt to attract some attention to it. Marx said: "Das Kapital will not bring in enough money to pay for the cigars I smoked while I wrote it." Marx's contemporaries scarcely knew that he was alive, much less what he stood for. He did acquire a brief notoriety during the Paris Commune of 1871, which was regarded as his handiwork. Said he: "Newspaper men and all kinds of people dog my steps for a glimpse of 'The Monster.' It does one's heart good...
Most radio weather news is read directly from the teletype in brief, dry spells at intervals throughout the day. But not the nightly (11:25 p.m.) comments of WOR's Nemo.* Nemo reads the U.S. Weather Bureau prediction, then follows it with a scientifically sound but slightly rhapsodic analysis of his own. By last week he had attracted thousands of enthusiastic listeners...