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Word: briefness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard squad spent this afternoon with the big game only two days away, in a brief workout boning, passing, and kicking at grades. Greep, Crimson star in the pre-Elizabethan drama, was getting his long twisters away beautifully, and averaged from 65 to 70 on some of the longer floaters. Coach Hanford, who is, by the way, a booter of no mean ability himself, was not too well satisfied with the star's showing, remarked: "If we were playing the Law School such grades would be acceptable, but things look tough against an aggregation of freebooters like Yale's team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/28/1928 | See Source »

Willard Howard '28, on the mound for the winning team, pitched a fine game, allowing only seven hits. The Crimson twirler kept the opposing batters well under control, except for a brief lapse in the eighth, when a single and two walks filled the bases. J. P. Chase '28 mishandled a grounder and let Westcott trot across the plate to score Maine's lone tally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY TEAM DOWNS MAINE NINE | 4/27/1928 | See Source »

...from the other side-a young lieutenant, snatched from the bride with whom he was honeymooning in African solitude. Very well, said Lady Mary, but time was never so precious; must she wait until the Lieutenant arrived with Lady Sophie? She must. The lieutenant came, the two ladies exchanged brief words of recognition, and back went the lieutenant over the Sudan, this time flying south with Lady Mary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Tale of Two Women | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...text-book for architectural school students. Rather is it a history and critique of architecture. The problems discussed are those which would interest the student of art, perhaps the architect, certainly not the contractor. The questions discussed are matters of taste, with but few blue-prints. In brief, the book is written for the layman...

Author: By V. O. Jones ., | Title: A Trio of Harvard Books | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...this book, M. Daudet considers the events leading up to the France-Prussian War. France's British and American policies, the principles of colonization, and the problems of religion and state. In brief, he finds that France, under the liberal regime has been hardly mismanaged, particularly as to things political and intellectual. He of course, goes too far. His alignment of cause and effect is usually distorted. But despite his exaggeration, exaggerations which bring a smile to the supporter of democracy but which Mr. Daudet regards as Gospel truth, there is to be found a germ of truth. Democracy...

Author: By V. O. J., | Title: French, English, American Essays | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

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