Word: brief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...removing calcium† from the rotifers' water, he stretched out their lives. By adding calcium, he shortened them. Brief immersions in sodium citrate, which removes calcium, lengthened the life spans of aging rotifers...
...Eliot rout four different men scored the four six pointers and the Jumbos were threatening once again, deep in Yardling territory, as the game ended. Dick Coe and Tener Eckleberry countered in the first half on brief runs. A Dave McGiffert to Dave Abbot pass opened the second half scoring and a Dave Wheeler run traveling 70 yards over center closed...
...Palestine partition a fail accompli, whole-hearted British cooperation in the implementation of the plan will effectively disperse all Arab League threats. From an examination of the economic and military foundations of Arab warnings, it is evident that Arab hands are tied without direct or indirect external aid. In brief, it Britain carries out her obligations both as a UN member and withdrawing Mandatory Power, Palestine can avoid major upheavals without calling upon UN police...
...Admired Unread. As a sampler of vintage literature, Pritchett has excellent taste. These 32 brief essays (many of which have appeared in London's New Statesman and Nation) restore the grandeur of such unvisited landmarks of English fiction as Humphrey Clinker, Middlemarch, Heart of Midlothian, Edwin Drood. They reduce to scale some modern writers-Wells, Bennett, D. H. Lawrence-while adding to the dimensions of several continental Europeans and two Americans: Walt Whitman and Stephen Crane...
Next year's Freshmen will be the first since 1941 to have a Register. The book will, as before the war, contain pictures of the Class of 1952 and brief biographies...