Word: briefer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until the tabloids came along, headlines tended to be wordy and dull, with each "bank" of type telling part of the story. Now, most headlines are briefer and more to the point. Nowhere in the U.S. are they as pointed, cynical, impudent or brassily clever as in the Daily News. Sample (on meat prices and inflation...
...Council rejected two other proposals for briefer polls after Bender indicated that they would not give the Administration enough specific data...
...ever since he arrived in Washington in 1939, a tall, dark, diffident young man with darting, unfixed eyes. He had not changed much, just grown a little heavier; his brief smiles (which at first made his new diplomatic acquaintances feel they might somehow "get across" to this Russian) were briefer than before. He would leave his name behind in the U.S. vernacular: "to pull a gromyko"-meaning, variously, to walk out or to be a robot reiterating the reflexive...
...Richard Hooker's is obscure. The zealous tinker, who won his youthful struggle against the sins of swearing, Sunday afternoon games and dancing, spent twelve years in the filth and squalor of Bedford jail for refusing to stop his "unlicensed preaching." But it was probably during a second, briefer imprisonment, in 1675, that he "fell suddenly into an allegory" and produced his well-known work, Pilgrim's Progress...
...first issue of the Bulletin will contain 128 pages, and it is planned to maintain at least an average of 96 pages in subsequent numbers, Cottrell announced. The contents of each issue will be roughly divided between the longer feature articles, and the briefer Notes...