Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...measure of that "unfitness" had not been his legal ability: the "Brandeis Brief" had revolutionized legal presentations of evidence and argument; he had personally won resounding court victories over the greatest reigning U.S. barristers for a score of years; Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller had called him "the ablest man who has ever appeared before the Supreme Court of the United States." But the objection to Brandeis arose because he was a man of original, unconventional economic opinions, and he held them with moral fervor...
Except for one brief interval, she had been there since 1921-for murder. Lyda's face was still plain but pleasant. Grey just tinged her bronze hair. Her memories and her 49 years sat very lightly...
...MARCH OF TIME will be solely sponsored as well as produced by the editors of TIME, will have only a brief, simple commercial announcement. It will also be broadcast over in stations of NBC's Blue network (for a complete list of stations see announcement on p. 99)-twice as many stations as ever before...
...when he tried to dramatize "Young Man With a Horn" starring Burgess Meredith. Eddie Condon and various other top-ranking men were actually signed up, but after a few weeks the pristine enthusiasm over the idea faded and no more was heard of the matter. But apart from the brief appearance of Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman in a minor extravaganza entitled "Swingin' the Dream," which caught at best a fleeting glimpse of Broadway, jazz and its exponents have not since been given a chance to ennoble the buskin'd stage...
...thousand men of Harvard will shorten their already brief and succinct apasma of cheering this fall in the throes of the Crimson's flashing in triumph...