Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...historian recalls an August night among the Vermont hills less than six years ago-reporters in automobiles rushing over country roads; a knock on the door of a white farmhouse in the hamlet of Plymouth; oil lamps lit dispelling the darkness; telegrams read by their glow; a brief statement of mourning; an oath of office administered at 2:30 a. m. by a country notary public to his son, the thirtieth President...
...Later this year there will be an official gathering of the nations for a final discussion resulting, it is to be hoped, in a settlement and acceptance. The task facing us here at Harvard is the formulation of a brief which the United States representatives at his last conference may present as their country's attitude and recommendations...
Correspondents (catching a glimpse of Owen D. Young in the chairman's place): "They've elected Young!" (Correspondents rush out to file cablegrams. On their return a handout is issued, stating that all the delegates made brief perfunctory speeches, and announcing that no minutes of the proceedings were kept. Curtain...
Round 16. Col. Stewart and his board of directors declared a 50% stock dividend a $1.12½ cash dividend (including a so-cent extra dividend), thus calling attention to their ability to put fat profits into the hands of the stockholders. During the brief speculative flurry which followed, Standard Oil of Indiana achieved the stock market (paper) value of a billion-dollar corporation...
...grouping authors and styles it is not necessary to be bothered too literally with dates. Emily Dickinson, for example, is a decidedly modern poet, terse, brief, never wordy, sinning, if in any way, in the opposite degree. Let us set her up to begin with, a woman poet fittingly the cornerstone of our modern "Gentleman's Library." We can follow along then rather briskly with A. E. Housman, W. H. Davies, Hodgson, Robert Frost, de la Mare. They are conventional but they would have shocked the lady's father and grandfather. Then too there is Hardy, a link between three...