Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subscriber to and booster for your valued publication, wishes to compliment you on the thoroughness with which you are covering Mr. Hoover's trip. The maps visualizing the route, and the brief interesting information regarding the countries visited is very refreshing to the average man, who is not so well informed about South American countries...
...last of three maps visualizing the progress of President-Elect Herbert Hoover around South America appears this week in TIME. The Hoover Odyssey is chronicled in National Affairs. Lands mapped pass in brief review below...
...luncheon, and tea dance will precede the evening concert in Buffalo on the following day. Due to the necessity of an early start for Cincinatti, the men will have only a brief time to enjoy the many entertainments after concert, before entraining for the middle West...
...filling station distribution. It says that the wholesaler should not lease pumps, tanks or other equipment; should not pay the retailer's rent, put up his buildings, lease him land at nominal rentals, or loan him money. He shall not give the retailer credit concessions or rebates. In brief, the wholesaler is forbidden to make with the retailer any arrangement by which this wholesaler may put himself on a different footing from any of his competitors...
Audiences have now become accustomed to copulation in the theatre and they may wonder how it is that a brief kiss almost causes Newland Archer to leave Mrs. Newland Archer for the Countess Olenska. Today, a playwright would not have used the kiss; but by substituting more ardent gestures he would not have made the situation more compelling. The time of the piece is "the seventies." The troubles of the characters in it are not rendered artificial by the artificialities of its expression, and the graces of a graceful era are retained. Watching the passion and despair of these costumed...