Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lured by a quarter of a mile of open water above the Newell Boat House and below the Weld Boat Club, five shells of the University flotilla ventured onto the Charles for a brief row yesterday. Men in touch with Harvard rowing asserted that it was the first time in history that such a step had been taken at this time of year...
...professional code than the worst advertisements of a medico, there seems no reason why any newspaper should be constrained to silence. The issue at point, while involving a tabloid paper in its local manifestation, is not to be classed with the usual frivolities of those publications; in brief, it concerns the statement, with no indication of doubt or other qualification, that a woman under sentence of death for murder has been visited by two ghosts-the first, and apparently more important, that of Mr. Valentino, accompanied by the husband of the prisoner. This was in headlines, so that...
Most ingenious and almost uncanny are the uses of the telegraphone. One may record a steady, even speech of about a half an hour, or he may catch fragments, separating them by brief intervals of silence. At any time the machine may be reversed in order that reproduction may be carried on. But the process of rendering the record audible does not destroy it. Once anyone has spoken into the transmitter a permanent record is set down which may be preserved literally forever. Moreover, the wire may be cut and repaired like moving picture film, with no danger...
...know, requires mental and physical stamina. Moreover, in setting and living up to an excellent standard, the Choate editors have probably fulfilled the highest expectations of the CRIMSON Senior Editors of the Class of 1926, who created the fund for three cups. For inasmuch as the competition in its brief two year existence has come to be practically national in its scope, it might be safely remarked that a general improvement in schoolboy publications has been inaugurated by the competition...
Intensive practice for the winter track meets got under way yesterday afternoon when the University and Freshman runners worked out in the new baseball cage and on the Soldiers Field board track. Coach E. L. Farrell and Captain A. H. O'Neil '28, who gave brief talks to the 175 candidates, pointed out that more men are needed in all events to fill the gaps left by the graduation of many of the most consistent performers on the boards. Track training table will begin at lunch today in the Varsity Club for 31 men chosen by Coach Farrell...