Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...objects of immigration restriction in this country, he brief stated as in the interest of acquiring homogeneity, like-mindedness in political affairs. In considering the economic aspects of the immigration restriction, he pointed out that altho ten years ago, employers and labor potentates were crying out for unrestricted immigration and cheap labor, now the situation is reversed and the employer, realizing that cheap labor is a liability rather than an asset, particularly in view of the increased efficiency of production of machinery, now demands excessive restriction of immigration...
...England, on the recommendation of the Prince of Wales, invited her to perform at Windsor Castle two years ago. Last spring, Miss Draper was presented at the Court of St. James's, an honor no British actress has ever received, and an episode which added one more brief, unpredictable mis-en-scene to the abrupt series in which Ruth Draper's life, and all other lives, is told...
...have begun these brief sketches of Oxford impressions with the weather, because it is one of the most striking and persistent of first impressions at Oxford. I have seen freshmen very depressed and lonely chiefly because of the weather. It is the first real obstacle to feeling at home in Oxford. Once one has taken proper steps to surmount this obstacle, one has gone a good way towards becoming a good Oxonian. English education owes much to the weather, because English character owes much to the English climate...
...stimulate the vitality of the tissues a brief, general exposure to ultraviolet rays from a mercury lamp has been made each day since Dec. 15. There is reason to think that this employment of ultraviolet rays has, in combination with the treatment mentioned in previous statements, been beneficial...
LETIZIA BONAPARTE (Madame Mere)-Clement Shaw-Viking ($2). Brief sketch of a devoted mother, sound advisor, diplomatic friend...