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Word: briefing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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More precisely, the story, while not a fantasy, is totally fantastic. Although no guarantee can be made as to the precision of the following brief synopsis, as the events were attached to each other in a highly unmemorable fashion, the story goes something like this: James Stewart, playing the part of a man who takes public opinion polls, is about to go out of business; he discovers the "magic town," a village which has the precise proportion of doctors, lawyers, Republicans, Democrats, loiterers, etc., as does the entire nation; he goes there, on the theory that an analysis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/12/1948 | See Source »

...knew who Yancey was. But the piece caught on, and the disc jockeys and record companies began hunting for Jimmy. They found him at the White Sox ballpark, cutting grass. He said he didn't even own a piano. Jimmy made a few records and had a brief burst of popularity, then had a stroke. His left hand stiffened up, and for a while he couldn't play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: As Long As They Want Me | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...first half of the second period both teams looked, to be brief, very weak. Ball-handling was sloppy, passes and shots wild, scoring at a minimum...

Author: By Ronald M. Foster jr., | Title: Northeastern Vanquishes Sextet, 8-7; Crimson Tames Tiger Quintet, 47-45 | 2/4/1948 | See Source »

...title of a Social Relations course to be given this spring, and it is a title that has meant everything and nothing to all who have pondered its significance. In this course, and in countless others like it spread throughout the Social Relations, Government, History, and Economics departments, a brief descriptive paragraph would make program planning much less of a haphazardous adventure that it is nowadays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matter of Courses | 2/3/1948 | See Source »

...week's end, Menéndez' body lay in state in the great marble Capitolio in Havana, where thousands passed his bier. All over Cuba sugar workers staged brief protest strikes. Cuba's Communists, who had been wasting away for months, now had a martyr, and they would make the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: At Manzanillo Station | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

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