Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boom1 was doomed to be brief-to end suddenly on Wednesday morning, Oct. 1, when the taxes took effect. But retailers were happy. Christmas might not be so good this year, but they had already had a kind of Christmas...
...splits atoms with a giant cyclotron. Brother John said last week that cyclotron bombardment can give any element the emanating qualities of radium. These radioactive elements, when swallowed in liquid form, have two great uses for medicine: 1) in minuscule amounts, they settle in specific organs for a brief time, then can be traced in their journey through the body, providing a clue to the process of growth and repair; 2) in larger doses they settle in the organs for a longer time. There, like radium or Xray, they destroy cancers...
Dodo was a railroad-station information clerk until the draft reaped him. His phenomenal memory makes Army Regulations nothing but a brief mnemonic exercise. An apparent intellect in the ranks so terrifies Dodo's superiors that they make him a sergeant in self-defense. From there on in, his way is paved with slapstick...
...course which began last year with Archimedes' Principle and this year with a smiling television image of the Jefferson Librarian does not pretend that its students will not rake leaves and pick up papers for $21 per month like their classmates. It merely wants to give a brief introduction to the course which men who took Physics C in any year must eventually take if they wish to become radio...
Harry Brown's delightful "The Brief, Unfinished History of John Cudlow" stands out as a fantasy of the professional magazines to which its author regularly contributes. The account of what happens to hen-pecked Mr. Cudlow when he begins to lay a large golden egg every morning lives up to its highest potentialities. The legendary goose had nothing on our John Cudlow...