Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, famed short story writer, has set himself up in the paragraphing business. Mornings now readers of the New York Herald Tribune and other journals scattered throughout the land read brief syndicated comments by Mr. Cobb...
...editorial sanctum to contaminate, if not totally infect a comment labelled "Let Them See" in the issue of October 14. The exhortation to visual perception was hardly necessary. The H. A. A. is argus-eyed and the CRIMSON can claim no immunity from a righteous protest, To be brief, it has tilted with a windmill, bayed at the moon, shied at a clothes horse. In short, it is not true that undergraduates are included in the draw for football tickets, but are alloted seats by order of classes immediately following applicants for the cheering section. The numerals...
...After a brief half hour on fundamentals in yesterday's practice session, the University squad went through more than an hour's dummy scrimmage against a typical Holy Cross passing attack, as demonstrated by an eleven composed entirely of coaches. All the Crimson backs got a chance to show their ability in breaking up the Purple aerial combinations. Although the coaches succeeded in completing a considerable number of their tosses, the University defense appeared to be faster and more wide awake than it has shown itself in the two contests played so far this year...
...stretches in the engine-room with the temperature at 116 degrees Fahrenheit, systematic investigation and study of the innards of a light cruiser and the workings of those innards, were part of the program outlined for the members of the Naval Science Unit from the University who took a brief cruise down the Atlantic seaboard early last summer...
...every one knows, Woodrow Wilson's Paris trip was the first of its kind. Taft visited Panama in 1910, but stayed in territory under U. S. jurisdiction, except for a brief stop-over at Cuba on the home trip. Harding, returning from his Alaskan tour, visited Vancouver, B. C., not, however, on a diplomatic mission...