Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word-tributes paid to Ferdinand Foch last week−and the few speeches of French statesmen were almost incredibly Spartan and brief−perhaps the most significant was uttered by a certain Mile. Breton, telephone operator to Foch from 1924 until last week. As she came to sit at her little switchboard, in the gate keeper's lodge of the Marshal's residence, Mile. Breton said...
After a period of training in New York men are sent to foreign depots for a brief period--such cities as Manila, Hong Kong, or Tokio, and are then sent out to the end of a railroad or steamboat line, there to serve as the local representative of the Standard system...
...University meets and was attended with great success. After a series of extremely close events, Standish and Smith Halls ended with 23 points apiece; first place was awarded to the former, however, on the strength of its victory in the relay race. There will now be a brief cessation of activities to allow yesterday's first-year men and Monday's fraternity swimmers to rest up for the open University division, which is to be held a week from today...
...Navy Department had developed into an almost hereditary public office for the Roosevelt family. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. occupied it for a year (1897-98). Then came his cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, now New York's Governor, to hold it for seven years (1913-20). After a brief interregnum under Gordon Woodbury, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. stepped in, in 1921, turning the position over in 1924 to his cousin, Theodore Douglas Robinson, nephew of the elder Roosevelt...
...policy will give the public "the amount of the over-assessment, a brief summary of the facts and a citation of the applicable statutory or judicial authorities." More important, it will create a new set of public precedents governing tax refunds, which will help to guide taxpayers through the maze that is the Internal Revenue Bureau...