Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obstruction it builds up to twice its power, just as a wave of water breaking on a wall will splash about twice its height. Therefore a direct voltage of 3,000,000 traveling along a line will suddenly jump to over 5,000,000 volts in & for the brief instant that it strikes the end of the line...
...Scoll '28, and R. C. Weaver '29. L. T. Grimm '29, Jacques Herling '28, A. D. Howlett Jr. ocC.; Saul Rosenzweig '29, and S. G. Silverman '30 will also work on the case. Every man retained must turn over to his coach before tomorrow afternoon a brief containing an outline of three speeches arguing whichever side of the case he plans to uphold...
Following in the wake of the Leviathan, which has been carrying Freshmen onto the Charles for several days, 13 shells of the University flotilla were launched on the Charles yesterday. Except for a brief row on January 13, the cruise marked the first venture of organized eights onto the river this year...
...politician smiled sympathetically, pityingly, upon Vice Chairman Emily Newell Blair of the Democratic National Committee, who betrayed her ignorance of the ineffable mysteries of national politics by declaring: "If I were writing the Democratic platform for 1928 there wouldn't be any. I would issue a short statement, brief and to the point, that platforms are out of style; either they mean something and are a target or they mean nothing and are a camouflage; in the one case dangerous and in the other case dishonest. Besides, they're boresome; they take up time in campaign speeches that...
...Arturo Peralta Ramos, recently Countess Salm von Hoogstraeten, originally Miss Millicent Rogers of New York, famed heiress, returned to Manhattan, last week on the S. S. Western World, with her present Argentine husband after a brief honeymoon in South America. He, a warmly handsome and appetizing youth, will shortly settle down to toil as a member of J. P. Benkard & Co., Manhattan brokers...