Word: briefing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...brief, informal ceremony at the Medical School on Wednesday afternoon. Shillingford was awarded the Henry Asbury Christian Prize, the outstanding senior prize which is given annually...
Soon after the fighters made their rendezvous with the bombers, the first German fighters appeared. Five minutes later the first German plane was down. The battle was brief: Cummings' group destroyed four Germans, with two probables and two damaged. No bombers were shot down...
Next day Sponsor Landon seemed to need a sponsor himself. During a brief stay in Washington, he had passed harsh judgment on Cordell Hull's Moscow achievements-so harsh, in fact, that Hearst's N.Y. Daily Mirror rejoiced: "To use Mr. Landon's own expressive word again, the Moscow conference was a 'cheat'. . . . We need more of the Landon type of outspoken courage today." Some Republicans felt they could do with a bit less of it, and ex-President Herbert Hoover gallantly came to Mr. Landon's rescue. "The Governor did not take...
...expert piece of sentiment called Goodbye, Mr. Chips, a young English actress, who looked rather like a goddess sculptured in butterscotch, made her brief screen debut, and without fair warning even to herself, stole the film. Though nobody clearly realized it at the time (four years ago), she also started something new in screen history...
...married at 19, fathered a son and two daughters, was put in charge of the granary of Baron Chi of Lu, became superintendent of herds and parks and at 22 began teaching philosophy and history. The sparse facts of his career form a clear pattern climaxing in his brief period of power as chief magistrate of Chung-tu when he was 52 and when, so potent was his example that "he was the idol of the people and flew in songs through their mouths." When Confucius became Chief Minister to Duke Ting of Lu, his theory of government was applied...