Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After a brief lesson from Lewis on the history of Radcliffe, administrators at last night's meeting focused on what the Trust will do for the campus...
...brief time last semester, the U.C. pledged $25,000 toward the funding of a new student center, the largest single allocation of council founds ever. By contrast, moving the deans one stop down the Red Line would be free save the cost of new business cards, address labels and stationery. For six months, the post office will even forward their mail...
...that brief time span, the Eagles took the game by finishing their chances after the Crimson failed. That was the lesson...
...impressive gains in workers' rights, it now seems the 1900s will end on a sour labor note. Last week five former employees filed a $1.5 million suit against SYLVESTER STALLONE and his wife JENNIFER FLAVIN, saying working for the couple was a "nightmare." The five claim that during their brief employ in the actor's mansion in 1995, they were required to follow a list of rules (dubbed "the Emperor's 10 Commandments"), including instructions to refrain from looking Stallone in the eye, to vanish immediately when he entered a room and never to speak to his mother. They...
Though Coward, who died in 1973, is intensely beloved by a devoted coterie, the wider audience knows him mostly for his brittle, epigrammatic plays--particularly Private Lives and Blithe Spirit--or for that foolproof cinematic stirrer of the female breast, Brief Encounter. But where his plays and films bear the whiff of a long-gone age, Coward's songs retain their vitality: the frisky list songs that display his wit (Mad Dogs and Englishmen; Don't Put Your Daughter on the Stage, Mrs. Worthington) and the achingly tender ballads that reveal his unmatched capacity for genuine sentiment (If Love Were...