Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hill. British physiologist, demonstrated electrical devices that will record a runner's time to 1/200 second. The method involves burying electric coils in the ground at intervals across the finish line; tying a light, magnetized sheet of metal to the runner's waist. The magnet induces brief electric currents in the buried coils as the runner flashes in. Electricity, literally lightning swift, may quicken many a "dead" (tied) heat, shave many a record...
These facts, in brief, go to show that the safeguards surrounding criminal trials in Massachusetts have been radically altered during the last sixty years by legislative action; that in 1860 capital cases were tried before four justices of the Supreme Judicial Court; that the present practice in which a capital case may be heard by only one judge is an anomaly in Massachusetts history, an experiment of barely ten years standing when Sacco and Vanzetti were brought to trial (and a clearly dangerous experiment): and that for this reason, public concern in its working is not only justified but demanded...
These arguments, brief as they are, ought, it seems to me, to show that conscious regulation of the birth rate is a highly ethical proposal. I shall say no more. If civilization advances, it will come. The forces on the other side are the forces of ignorance, prejudice, and superstition. They are the same forces that caused the poor savage of the Polynesian wilds to die of fright because he ate the king's food unwittingly. Are we to be ruled forever by tabu
...will entertain the guests with some specialty acts and songs. Anson Stokes Jr. president of the Yale University Christian Association, Charles A. Howard Jr., president of the Philadelphian Society of Princeton University and W. G. Saltenstall '28, president of the Phillips Brooks Association for 1927-28, will then give brief talks...
...according to the recipe of Milan cooks; and occasionally a cutlet. He percolates his own coffee and drinks it black. While he lunches thus, prelates on their knees read him his correspondence and extracts from Italian and foreign newspapers. After luncheon he goes to his private apartments for a brief...