Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delegates to the London Naval Conference to talk Japan's delegates out of their demands for large submarine tonnage. With nice new bags and trunks ceremoniously packed by his wife who remained behind in Tokyo, onetime Japanese Premier Reijiro Wakatsuki had brought his delegation to Washington for a brief diplomatic visit on the way to London. To his suburban home, Woodley, Statesman Stimson invited Delegates Wakatsuki and Takarabe, there with U. S. Delegate Morrow, discussed naval matters with them for 150 minutes. Not to embarrass the Japanese with a preponderance of U. S. delegates, Secretary of the Navy Adams...
...White Paper" is any brief government report to the British Parliament printed in a small unbound pamphlet (50 to 100 words), not unlike a U. S. congressional committee report. A similar but more pretentious document is the "Blue Paper," bound in blue covers...
Unlike the Almanach de Gotha's authors, who maintain a ponderous delitescence, are the British editors of Jane's Fighting Ships. They preface their pages of photographs, statistics and "recognition silhouettes" of the world's warships with a brief foreword reviewing the year's progress in warship building, the outlook for the year to come. Chief comments: "It is difficult to imagine that present proposals for the abolition of the submarine have any chance of success." "The 10,000-ton Washington treaty type of cruiser will prove of very doubtful value for future naval operations...
Byron Satterlee Hurlbut '87, Professor of English, died last night at 11.30 o'clock at the Cambridge Hospital after a brief illness. No announcement as to funeral services has been made. He is survived by his wife...
...clear that the system is not applicable to Harvard. The mere mention of a class mass meeting is enough to damn it. Nevertheless there is a need for a method by which the name of the nominee will have some significance in the mind of the voter. A brief mention of the position and activities of the candidate, printed on the ballot, would serve in some measure to acquaint the voter with the aspirant for office...