Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Said he: "On the basis used in computing more recent unemployment totals, it would have been possible to say that in 1921 not six but twelve million Americans were out of a job. We know that those millions of jobless were put back to work, and in a remarkably brief period of time our country had reached a prosperity higher than any before in our history. I have no hesitancy in saying that for this remarkable feat the American people are largely indebted to Herbert Hoover...
...this and more he did to speed the hours of a brief vacation and reinvigorate his health...
...divided, determines the policies and practices of the organization. The Association is made up of the students who are participating in its work, and participation is the only requisite for membership. A graduate secretary lends his efforts and advice to the work and to the cabinet. That is, in brief, the organization. The members of the Association believe that action directed towards the betterment of life and living is one of the truest expressions of religion...
Loomed, after the brief Egyptian visit, a 17-day sail from Alexandria through the Suez Canal and down the coast of Africa to Mombasa. For the sake of comfort on this sweltering voyage the British India Steam Navigation Co.'s S. S. Mali has been improved by ripping out the partitions dividing her six largest cabins and constructing instead two spacious, airy bedrooms and a sumptuous sitting room for Their Royal Highnesses...
...fashionable Berlin cinemaddict, The Homecoming held no particular significance. First-nighters watched the story of two German soldiers imprisoned in Russia during the War, returning to the Vaterland to find vast and disturbing changes. What the average cinemaddict failed to mark was a brief announcement at the picture's opening...