Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant will forget University affairs for a brief hour today, when he lectures to Chemistry 2 on chlorophyll at 9 o'clock in the big lecture room in Mallinckrodt...
Benito Mussolini has been a Socialist, a soldier, a Fascist. Josef Pilsudski performed several flip-flops more. He was born a Polish aristocrat, at Zulow, Province of Vilna, but his family had already lost most of its wealth through participation in a brief revolt against Imperial Russia in 1864. When Josef was seven the family fortunes were wiped out in a disastrous fire. Through high school he was in constant hot water with his teachers by insisting on speaking Polish...
...novel called The Sleep-Walkers. In Germany where it was widely read, its author, Hermann Broch, was known respectfully as a onetime businessman whose philosophic and scientific bent had led him to literature in middle age. Readers of The Unknown Quantity will echo that respect. The Unknown Quantity is brief (240 pages), carefully and clearly written, contrives a genuine atmosphere of intellectual excitement, but it lacks the human charm most readers demand...
...campaign for prostitutes is in line with the organization's whole program for next year of furthering labor movements and upholding workers' rights. It further exemplifies the remark of Herschel Berman '38, head of the Harvard chapter of the League, who stated in brief but pointed language, "We know where we are going...
After supper the festivities continue in the Triangle with a short concert by the Glee Club, several banjo and guitar selections, a brief violin recital by Malcolm H. Holmes, a quartet singing popular undergraduate music, an exhibition of monocycle riding, and winding up by more selections by the Glee Club with the whole crowd finally joining the Club in singing football songs...