Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brief moment at the opening of the second period Williams sneaked back into the game when Nichols on a low shot beat Steve O'Nell, who had replaced starter Ab Fenn in the Crimson sets. Just 46 seconds later Gebelein struck back on a pretty play in which Paine received credit for an assist. Beebe and Harding both scored on passes from Everts and Ayres respectively to give the Crimson a 5 to 1 edge before the end of the period...
Pulham embodies the reflections of a Boston investment counsel when his 25th Class Reunion Committee asks him for a brief biography of his life. Back goes the camera into his well-to-do Boston upbringing, his "carryon" prep-school days at St. Swithin's; Harvard and culture; World War I and the Argonne; Manhattan and the advertising business; the girl he loved (Hedy Lamarr); his easy, fateful slide into his late father's (Charles Coburn) sinecure; his passionless marriage to his mother's choice (Ruth Hussey); his slightly bewildered, slightly querulous, slightly pathetic acceptance of his fate...
Also included in the book: a brief biographical sketch of Lincoln by Editor Lorant; important documents (among them the Gettysburg Address, the Emancipation Proclamation) in Lincoln's handwriting; the photographic record of the assassination...
...sector in the near eastern theatre of the war; and we are hardly willing to mention the Japanese in the same breath with Christmas. Of course there are always the stories about "cease firing" orders, and even fraternization on Christmas Eve, but the respite is usually a brief...
...Defense Economics," by Seymour Harris, professor of Economics, and "British Colonies and the War," by Marcus James '43 are both brief, dull, but thoroughly factual, and provide a worthwhile variation from the Guardian's tendency to emphasize theoretical material, a fault which has occurred more consistently in the past than in the current issue...