Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...floor shouted in answer to the roll call: "Pennsylvania casts 75 votes for General Edward Martin." The vote, as everyone knew, was just a maneuver. Pennsylvania came around to Curtis when the Pennsylvania bosses got what they wanted frolri the National Committee. But it gave Ed Martin his first brief and tentative spin into the national scene...
...relations with Russia, the U.S. has rejected two extreme views of what Russia really wants. The leading spokesmen of these opposed views were Henry Wallace and William C. Bullitt (ex-Ambassador to Moscow). The Wallace view, in brief, was that, once Russia feels secure against attack, she will stop expanding and start providing the long-promised socialist Utopia for her own people. The Bullitt view was that the Bolshevik leaders are irrevocably committed by the "Communist creed" to world domination, and that nothing will stop them but force, the sooner applied, the better...
...guest of the College Montaigne Society and the Dunster House Forum, Theadors Spencer, Boylston Professor of Oratory and Rhetoric, illustrated in a brief talk how Montaigne's principles on enlightened Scepticism apply to modern living last night...
...Brief Encounter. Excellent British-made tearjerker, expanded with realism and skill from a Noel Coward playlet (TIME, Sept...
Gurley, a natural born runner, is a tall husky redhead from Newton who has no high school experience in either track or cross country and who ran for only a few brief weeks in the fall of 1943 before he went into the army. As far as could be determined, his election sets some sort of a record in Varsity sports--although he is in the class of '47, he is only a second term Freshman, a fact which augurs well for future of cross country...