Word: briefness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...climbing up and down painting the crosses on Soviet churches a brilliant Bolshevik red with the beaming acquiescence of the clergy. In the city of Izhevsk, according to the vexed Godless last week, young Soviet workers in the automobile plant now down their tools during working hours for brief but intensive periods of Bible reading. The Godless reported in several regions "mass baptisms of adults and even youths of Communist Youth...
Throughout Depression the proudest of U. S. opera companies was the San Francisco organization which, though its seasons were brief, imported expensive singers, moved into a handsome new municipal auditorium and never gasped for money. Last autumn the San Francisco Opera peaked its artistic career by presenting Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungen at a cost of some $80,000 (TIME, Nov. 4). Last week President Wallace M. Alexander of the Opera Association announced a deficit of $45,000, recommended a begging campaign for $50,000 to insure another season...
...Poor Joe" About to depart for a vacation at Palm Beach, Hamlet Smith took a brief curtain to reply to Senator Robinson. As if weeping over the skull of a departed Yorick, he lamented: "Poor Joe -I'm sorry for him; they put him on a tough spot. He did the best he knew how, but it was no answer. As I said in my speech . . . there is only one man who should try to answer me. . . .* I was an 'Unhappy Warrior' to hear him read off a speech over which he stumbled so that I felt...
...headlines, brief reporting, and makeup of the Crimson's article on the Varsity Crew Meeting Monday night conveyed a totally erroneous impression which we should like to correct...
...world will have part should have a wholesome influence in marking the importance of preserving the scholarly tradition of education carried on and developed through three centuries, but especially the tradition of "free inquiry" which first came to our shores three centuries ago. As President Conant says in his brief annual report, it is particularly important and fortunate that the anniversary celebration is held in these days when "the academic institutions" of more than one country have been "crippled by persecution," for it should help to demonstrate to the nation at large the significance of our colleges and universities...