Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...RETURN OF DON QUIXOTE-G. K. Chesterton-Dodd, Mead ($2.50). A brief for romanticism in a reactionary age; a novel...
...University crew has rowed two brief time trials in front of the Newell boathouse to test the comparative speed of the Pocock shell which it rowed in the triangular race, and the new Lutz boat. They rowed a little more than a third of a mile each time, first in the Pocock and then in the Lutz, and they rowed the distance about a second faster in the latter shell...
Premier Baldwin's brief speech to the House of Commons on Tuesday left little doubt as to whether Britain or Soviet Russia had committed the breach of confidence. A police raid on Soviet House in London secured conclusive evidence that the Russian trade officials, under cover of commercial activities, had used their facilities as a center for the Red International, that vaguely sinister organization devoted to military espionage and subversive activities throughout the Empire, and North and South America as well. Communist agitators were trained on ships of the Russian trading companies with a view to subsequent service on British...
...dear to the public indignation actually remained palatial for more than their fleeting period of youth and novelty. Harvard has no golden baths, nor did it ever have, but if it had one might safely predict that within a year they would be discovered to be brass. The brief time necessary for delapidation, and worse, to set in college dormitories would be deemed impossible to any besides those who have witnessed it. Elevators originally described as "scaling the building and laden with cargoes of students" slow their flight until it is only with agony that they manage to creep...
...Grenfell tells us in the preface, had its genesis in the request of various friends that he "put on record" what Christ means to him. Those friends may have expected from him a measured, careful statement of his religious creed, instead of which he gives them, and us, a brief but extraordinarily vivid autobiography. In taking this course rather than the other, Dr. Grenfell has very certainly been truer both to himself and to his subject, for, as he says, "facts are still the most trustworthy and verifiable things we know of." What anything "has meant to us" is known...