Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just a word as to what I think of TIME. . . . For one thing, it's brief but complete; it covers the field adequately without the verbosity of a reporter who is being paid by the column. Again, it is surprising: the first week it came on Saturday, the next week on Sunday, this week on Monday and thus it leaves me wondering what day it will come next week. Finally, it brings good luck. The day after receiving my first copy, I, for the first time in my life discovered a pearl (not, unfortunately, a pearl of great price...
That is the most tremendous satire that I have ever come upon; it is stupendous. One would expect that Swift had returned to life for a brief moment, or at least Lewis Carroll (and, of course, Alice with him). It may have been a common jokesmith, but the glory still remains. WM. K. LOMASON University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich...
...Hoover. Candidate Hoover last week made his first campaign speech. It was so brief, so quiet that only one newspaper (the New York World) heard about it until the next day. It was in Washington, at a banquet which the 80-odd U. S. Representatives invited were asked to keep secret. It took the form of a bow, some thanks, an exhortation to keep fighting and a promise to vindicate the fighters' choice. Representative Dyer of Missouri enlivened the evening with a veritable placing-in-nomination speech, but of greater significance was a statement by Campbell Bascom Slemp, astute...
Yesterday for the first time this season, the University baseball squad was able to leave the shelter of the new cage to go through a brief workout on Soldiers Field. Although the outdoor session was brief and consisted solely of batting practice, it is hoped that the condition of the turf will improve rapidly enough during the next few days to let the squad have a full week of outdoor work before the opening game of the season with Boston University on April...
...Livingston 2L and H. F. Blumenberg 2L, have been awarded the Marshall Club prize for the year 1928. The prize was founded in 1925 by the Marshall Club upon the celebration of its one hundredth an recognition of the best brief writniversary, and is yearly given in ten in the second year Ames Competition. It will consist of book plates and books for the winners...