Word: brief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nervous students file into Memorial Hall every year to take exams, a brief, silent spark of recognition inevitably interrupts their last pre-exam moments. This recognition leaves them a little more secure, a little more puzzled, and quite a bit more amused than they had been an instant before. They have seen the familiar face. They have heard the soothing patter. Once again they are face-to-face with a Harvard institution--the inscrutable, ubiquitous Mr. Test...
...recent weeks, your newspaper has arried stories about the controversy surrounding the denial of funding to the exposure, a publication written by Boston University students and others, which has been denied University funding until it agrees to conform with University policy. I would like to offer a brief explanation of the University's policy with regard to publications...
Minority recruitment, the article states, was instituted by Harvard as simply another means to achieve educational diversity. Harvard did not take the position that it has a social or educational obligation to equal opportunity education or to minority recruitment. Harvard's amicus curiae brief for the Bakke case, for example, makes no plea for commitment to minority education...
After his brief address, Powell spent nearly an hour responding to questions from the audience on various political issues...
...brief time last summer it looked as though a President had finally found the wherewithal to stand up to the corporate lobby in favor of the small farmer and economic justice. If the amendments Carter introduces to the Reclamation Act of 1902 in the next Congressional session significantly raise the 160-acre ceiling, the self-styled Georgia peanut farmer will have sided with agribusiness against the defenseless, the rootless, the unemployed, and the landless...