Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South Boston butcher's son, Jesse Pomeroy began a life of brief but terrible crime at 13, when he was sent to a reform school for torturing little children. Upon his release a little boy was cruelly murdered, then a little girl. On April 22, 1874 Horace Miller, 10, was found dead in an unspeakable condition. Pomeroy, then 15, was arrested, tried, sentenced to be hanged. The whole East seethed with outrage against his sadism. After many a delay Governor Rice, because of his youth, commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. On Sept. 7, 1876 Pomeroy entered Charlestown Prison...
Repercussions. Leading U. S. cotton experts were in substantial agreement that: 1) Even a brief Lancashire strike would depress the market for raw cotton as British orders were curtailed. 2) Only a long Lancashire strike would boom the U. S. cotton textile trade. Reason: the British mills have reserve stocks of the type of high class cotton cloth competitively manufactured in the U. S. and can maintain their position in this class of goods for some weeks or months. 3) Germany and Japan, producers of cheapest cotton cloth, will be in a much stronger position to grab what Lancashire loses...
...second transoceanic commercial air voyage. She reached Lakehurst, N. J., from Friedrichshafen, at the German-Swiss border in 95 hrs., 23 mins. without trouble, having averaged 60 miles an hour during most of the trip,?about twice as fast as the S. S. Bremen. Passengers, after an agreeably brief customs and immigration inspection, gloated over the relative uniqueness of their air travel...
...Pius XI created only one new Cardinal, postponed other elevations until December, made only brief remarks. "Certain events have taken place with which we shall deal later on in the year," he said, evidently referring to friction between the Papal State and Fascist Italy since the signing of their Concordat (TIME...
...Brief is the glory of tallest buildings, longest boats, mightiest cannon, similar man-made objects which for a little while are the superlatives of their kind. With the liner Bremen, world's third longest, just starting on her maiden voyage (see page 21) came last week the announcement that United States Lines, Inc., was planning two new liners longer even than the 938 foot Bremen. They will each be approximately 950 feet long, said Joseph Sheedy, who is operating U. S. Lines, Inc., for Paul Chapman. Each will accommodate 4,000 passengers...