Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These flying visits by the Corps not only allow the cadets to see something of the colleges they visit and provide a welcome-even though brief respite from their daily routine, but give their hosts for the day an opportunity to welcome on their fields the wearers of the Black, Gold and Gray--those students of a great national institution, truly representative in its membership of the whole country irrespective of section, creed or class; whose traditions for the century and a quarter since its foundation have been so closely identified with the progress and development of the country that...
Both the Harvard and Cadet squads will make use of the Stadium this afternoon for a brief session of signal practice. The Crimson cohorts will work out from 3 to 3.30 o'clock, when the West Point players will test the Stadium turf. The Army lineup which is expected to start tomorrow follows l.e., Carlmark: l.t., Price: l.g., Humber: c., Miller: r.g., Hillsinger: r.t., Perry: r.e., Messinger: q.b., Gibner: l.h.b. O'Keefe: r.h.b., Cagle: f.b., Murrell...
...Angell has accompanied his book with an essay on money. After upbraiding economists for writing dully and unintelligibly about their subject, and selling his game as economics in easy steps for little feet. Mr. Angell gives a brief discussion of economic theory...
...Bethmann-Hollweg. With the Armistice and the disastrous Treaty of Versailles a sudden change came upon him. Always acutely practical he realized that right or wrong in the War, Germany was beaten, that her only hope of salvation lay in making friends with her former enemies. After a brief interval as German Chancellor, 1923 found him Germany's Foreign Minister, a position he has retained ever since. There followed the Locarno pact, Germany's entrance into the League-a record that won him the Nobel Peace prize in 1926 and which he topped off with the enthusiastic signing...
...athletic pocket. There were numerous small college teams which came down from the hills, engaged an equal number of big college teams, and returned with little except a considerably enlarged bank balance. The best that they could have hoped for was that rather unsatisfactory conclusion, the "moral victory". A brief perusal of the scores in the Sunday papers shows that few of them even achieved such heights as that...