Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Diplomat von Ribbentrop sat down, he realized that the Council must almost certainly vote to condemn Germany, hastily popped up again to plead that it would be "unfair" to Germany to vote at once. Seemingly the brothers-in-law hoped that even a brief delay would bring intervention favorable to Germany from Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. This was still possible, but French Foreign Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin, tall, big-boned and fair, again showed that he knows remarkably well how to handle Britons. The usual sort of Frenchman would almost certainly have demanded an immediate vote, and in so doing...
Hook-nosed Paul Gauguin, half Peruvian, was born in Paris, spent part of his childhood in the Andes. After brief schooling at a Jesuit seminary in Orléans, he ran away to sea. Chastened by that experience, he returned to Paris, married a Danish woman, did quite well for himself as a stockbroker. On Sundays Broker Gauguin got the smell of counting houses out of his nose by going into the suburbs, painting landscapes. On these trips he met and made friends with Impressionists Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro. In 1887 he suddenly deserted wife, family and the stock...
...saucily in her hair. In the centre of the ice, her sturdy little legs suddenly twinkled into the first steps of a mazurka. Then she swung into a Lutz jump, a Jackson-Haynes spin, glided backward the length of the rink in a fadeaway stop. To lay observers, this brief turn was not remarkable. For experts it was an exercise in sheer genius, the climax of the evening. Cheering wildly, they demanded two encores...
...full scrimmage this afternoon marks the beginning of the final grilling workouts before the trip. A brief rest over the week-end, and then the squad boards the train for Baltimore, where it will meet the Mount Washington club on Tuesday...
...lifework. He was building better than they knew. All the time he was wandering over Europe, planning Yale's Sheffield Scientific School, teaching geography there, serving on New Haven's Board of Education, he was observing and thinking about Education. When he was called from a brief term as president of the University of California to create Johns Hopkins, his ideas were ripe...