Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whatever advertising value to TIME this column is today, it is welcome. For our readers, there is no periodical published that we know of that will give you the world survey in so short a time as TIME and we have it accurate, educational, concise, interesting, inclusive yet brief and virtually indispensable in keeping up with what is going...
...last message of Calvin Coolidge to the U. S. Congress proved to be a brief and unmomentous document. It began, of course, on Peace and Prosperity. It announced that, thanks to prudent budget pruning, the Treasury might have a surplus of 37 millions this year instead of the 94-million deficit rumored before the election. Let Congress beware of the "unthinkable disgrace" of unbalancing the budget between now and June 30, it said...
Chaplain Montgomery prayed for three minutes. From gallery corners cameras clicked and movie men cranked, grateful for the brief immobility of the house. Its membership was caught by the prayer in disordered patterns...
...second 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...
Representing the French St. Mihiel Memorial Committee, Mr. Marie Andre Charles Ginisty, bishop of Verdun, paid a short visit to the University yesterday morning. With other members of his party he was received by President Lowell, and a brief inspection of Widener Library and University Hall followed...