Word: briefest
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Although declining steadily percentage-wise during the past 34 years, they are still responsible for over one-fourth of the school's funds. And even the briefest study of the history and current contribution of investments to the University proves that Harvard is not a Kremlin-on-the-Charles but rather a house that capitalism built and a house whose future is tied inextricably with that of its builder
...themselves." Thoughtful newsmen know that the facts alone seldom can, that they speak clearly only when they are told in proper order and perspective-and thus interpreted-by an honest journalist. Nevertheless, many a U.S. editor still damns interpretive reporting and sticks to his fetish of "objectivity," though the briefest item in his newspaper may, in fact, be interpretive reporting. Last week Palmer Hoyt's Denver Post thought it time to read such editors a lecture on the facts of journalistic life. Said the Post...
Mozart: Sonata in A Minor, K. 310 (Dinu Lipatti, piano; Columbia). Pianist Lipatti died two years ago at 33, but not before he made a series of recordings. His Mozart is water-clear; the briefest melodic line takes on significance, and sounds as easy as breathing...
...project, and turned down ads for a community project to raise money for the widow of a local hero who had tried to save three boys from drowning. By his own peculiar rules of nonpartisanship, the Exponent is Democratic, the Telegram Republican, and during campaigns each prints only the briefest news about the party it opposes. On the day that Harry Truman whistle-stopped at Clarksburg, the Exponent carried not a word about it. (The Sunday combined Exponent-Telegram is completely "nonpartisan," i.e., rarely reports political news...
Gertie (by Enid Bagnold), a frail, younger English sister to Jane, paid Broadway the briefest of visits. A generally listless comedy, it concerned a family that would soon run out of money, and the plight of its two daughters in an England that seemed already to have run out of men. Its one real claim to attention was the Broadway debut, in the title role, of British Cinemactress Glynis (State Secret) Johns, who gave a highly engaging performance...