Word: briefer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Briefer Notes...
Other managerial competitions are open to the class of 1933 in soccer and cross country. The announcement of the competitions in these minor sports will be made within the next few days. They are briefer and less arduous than the football contest...
...Contemporary Art. They are of particular significance because of the general ignorance and vagueness, which has clouded this period in art. Professor Pope's introductory article in the forthcoming catalogue of the Fogg exhibition to some extent handles the same material as his lecture yesterday, although in a briefer style...
...country for Death in Venice, a collection of long short stories, than for his two-volume "naturalistic" Buddenbrooks, and The Magic Mountain, another lengthy fictionized philosophy. One is therefore the more surprised that he produces Children and Fools, a collection of actual short stories. And pleasantly surprised, because the briefer format is better adapted to carry the even tenor of sad beauty that pervades all of Mann's writings, and is unbearably sustained in his long novels...
Members of the American Otological Society, at their sixth annual convention in Manhattan last week, gave close examination to a machine that may make briefer the ten years now usually required to teach a person hard of hearing* to talk properly. The hard of hearing can easily imitate a normal person's talking lips, jaws and throat movements. But to imitate a talker's moving vocal cords requires tedious years of practice. Even after learning to talk properly the hard of hearing frequently forget to make their vocal cords work. Their lips move; they make no sound...