Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been accustomed to idling on the practice field, hesitating a brief second before plunging through the line, or forgetting he is a cog in a machine needs more than six weeks in which to become an A-1 player. Until he has learned new habits, he is of little assistance in rendering effective even the best system in the world. This is the problem on Soldier's Field today...
...other Nazi bigwigs last week attended the 125th anniversary of General von Scharnhorst's War Academy. With them stood a hard-working officer who for years has been known to the Press as "Chief of the Troop Office." His name was General Ludwig Beck. In the first brief account of the ceremonies an official press release casually gave him his real title-"Chief of the General Staff." Stepping to the rostrum, Chief of Staff Beck told how it had been done...
...Steel as a starting point for a long (483-page) discussion of financial and corporate expansion in the U. S. between 1900 and 1930. The Lords of Creation concentrates principally on the change from a laissez-faire economy to one dominated by gigantic trusts, but is studded with brief characterizations of the leading financiers of the period and enlivened with colorful items of unfamiliar information. The result is an uneven book, a straightforward narrative of speculative adventures in the sections dealing with the early years, which grows increasingly vague and general when it runs into post-War prosperity and depression...
Descending on Soldier's field in a Purple avalanche the Holy Cross freshmen kept the ball almost completely in Harvard Jayvee territory except for one brief lapse and outscored them...
Schallek, whose home is in New York City, roomed in Number 47 on the third floor of the Yard dormitory. He was in a coma practically all of yesterday, only regaining consciousness for brief moments, according to medical officials...