Search Details

Word: brief (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Almost 100 years ago, on January 8, 1900, The Crimson published a front page story titled "A Brief Summary of Growth and Changes of the Century." The one-column article stated that "the beginning of the year 1900 has suggested a comparison of the present Harvard with the Harvard of one hundred years...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Millennial Madness Unmasked | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

Morison graduated from the College and except for a brief period in the early 1910s when he pursued private study, he spent his entire life either as a student or as a professor of history at Harvard. For almost 60 years Morison wrote novels and journal pieces. Arguably, his most famous work is his 1935 History of the Founding of the College, where he traces the scholarly antecedents of Harvard in both the British and French models...

Author: By James P. Mcfadden, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Morison: A Harvard Historian Frozen in Time | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...United Press International (UPI) hired MacNeil to report on the Washington, D.C. political scene. With the exception of another brief stint at Columbia, during which he received his masters degree, MacNeil would spend the remainder of his career...

Author: By Neil Macneil, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Putting D.C. on TV: MacNeil Reviews Washington's Week | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

Morison graduated from the College and except for a brief period in the early 1910s when he pursued private study, he spent his entire life either as a student or as a professor of history at Harvard. For almost 60 years Morison wrote novels and journal pieces. Arguably, his most famous work is his 1935 History of the Founding of the College, where he traces the scholarly antecedents of Harvard in both the British and French models...

Author: By James P. Mcfadden, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: S.E. Morison: A Monument to the Man | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

Microsoft won that bid with its much publicized $5 billion purchase of AT&T stock. Now it's set to provide Ma Bell with up to 10 million set-top boxes preloaded with a stripped-down version of Windows. AOL missed out, and its stock went into a brief tailspin. But broadband is not a zero-sum game--at least, not yet. Case quickly countered with his own new deal, to have Hughes Electronics' DirecTV offer AOL via satellite to its 7 million customers. The resulting product will be called AOL TV. Microsoft, of course, is still pushing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadband On Trial | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

Previous | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | Next