Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Annie Smith Peck, 84, teacher, author, lecturer, alpinist; after brief illness; in Manhattan. Onetime professor of Latin at Smith College, Miss Peck gave up teaching for mountain-climbing at 45, was known at 60 as the world's No. 1 woman alpinist, climbed Mt. Madison...
...brief and brilliant period of the New Deal U. S. monetary policy slipped out of the hands of the President, Congress and Senator Fletcher into the hands of economists. With bankers in disrepute as wise and beneficent directors of U. S. destiny, economists were trotted out to replace them. In regular if rapid rotation economists rode high in the New Deal. What they have accomplished no one will know for years but today one thing is certain: Economists as a class are almost as discredited as bankers in the popular mind...
...when Sir Almroth Edward Wright, redoubtable young Irishman, made inoculation against typhoid fever a practicable medical procedure. U. S. sani- tarians were slow to pick up his methods. Consequently 20,738 U. S. soldiers, nearly one-fifth of those mobilized, suffered from typhoid-1,580 died- during the brief War with Spain. Simultaneously Dr. Wright, as a member of the India Plague Commission, was inoculating 3,000 soldiers in India. Later he had every one of the 100,000 British soldiers who fought in the Boer War (1902) inoculated. Immediately thereafter (1902-07) he set up the system of therapeutic...
Died. John Joseph Bernet,, 67, president of the Van Sweringens' Chesapeake & Ohio (TIME, July 8), Pete Marquette and Nickel Plate R. R., onetime telegrapher, self-made son of a Swiss immigrant blacksmith; after brief illness; in Cleveland...
...powerful War novel, The Case of Sergeant Grischa, found Author Zweig's short stories cut in the same essential pattern as his longer and more ambitious work, read of humble people who were destroyed or demoralized by events beyond their control or understanding, who sometimes attempted a brief resistance, but more often submitted hopelessly to fate. Most of Author Zweig's tales ring true, contain sharp characterizations that make up for his occasional sentimental philosophizing...