Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...former years, Professor Davison will give each day during the examination period a brief organ recital at Appleton Chapel beginning immediately after the service of daily morning prayers...
Eyeing his brief case in the path of the cameras he tossed it aside and said: "I want to get this badge of bureaucracy hidden where it won't show...
...rising. Venus shone with especial brilliancy. At precisely that midhour the General woke up of his own accord. He felt refreshed, vigorous. As a revolutionary against Spain from 1895 to 1898 he had learned to sleep deeply in brief periods. He pattered to his bath, a stocky, powerful man of 57. A secretary followed, reading to him summaries of the night's news. The President sloshed himself, dried himself, shaved himself (the secretary reading the while) and dressed himself in formal morning clothes. Like most male Cubans he detests woolen clothes. But this was a day of days...
...moment of adjournment last week, neither Britain nor Japan had requested so much as a peek. Therefore dapper Mr. Gibson put the Hoover Formula back into his brief case and returned to his diplomatic post-Brussels. Four days later, Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty Rt. Hon. William Clive Bridgeman, resolute opponent of any reduction in John Bull's navy, received a copy of the Hoover plan, not from Ambassador Gibson but from the U. S. naval experts in Geneva. Eventually he must submit an opinion on it to the Committee of Imperial Defense, which will pass...
...brief illness left me far behind schedule with my chemistry. In an effort to obtain more time than I could arrange for by day, I equipped a cellar room at home for the adequate performance of various experiments. I was rewarded by the information that work done outside could not be accepted for credit, and yet I was not being victimized more than anyone else...