Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second place, to be brief, the Language Requirements demand that a student must have shown either: (a) a reading knowledge of French and an elementary knowledge of German (or vice versa) or (b) a reading knowledge of Latin plus a reading knowledge of either French or German...
...Grand Tour.'. . . They are proud to realize that his motto has been to improve each shining hour, even if this has meant activities far into the night. ... To the itinerant Mr. Walker falls the task of noting, marking and inwardly digesting . . . information, and doing it within a brief respite after a tour of inspection of Venetian ballrooms lasting until 5 a. m. Naturally he is looking forward to a real vacation when he returns from this strenuous 'Student-Reise...
...Hubert S. Work of the U. S. Department of the Interior asked the Association's mineral law section to urge the next Congress to legislate to conserve U. S. petroleum and gas resources, now being wasted through too much competition. Henry L. Doherty seconded Mr. Work, offering a brief for Federal adoption or promotion of the pool plan of conservation introduced last spring in the Seminole, Okla., field (TIME, May 23). James A. Veasey, counsel for the Carter Oil Co. at Tulsa, Okla., submitted that, though the industry is now overproduced and demoralized, it can right itself; Federal control...
Last week a telephone tinkled in the London residence of the Princess Loewenstein-Wertheim. It was Captain Hamilton calling from Upavon, Wiltshire. The weather reports were favorable. His plane, the St. Raphael, was ready. Her maid hastily packed two brief cases, two red hat boxes, a little wicker basket and bundled them into a motor. The Princess entered the automobile and ordered speed...
...companion Lieut. Col. Frederick F. Minchin, denied reports that they would take a passenger. Skeptics noted a wicker chair fastened by one leg to the floor of the ship's tiny cabin. Not many hours later, just after dawn, these skeptics saw piled around the wicker chair two brief cases, two red hat boxes and a little wicker basket...