Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Major Bruno Brandi: "The future war will be a continuous sum of single catastrophes and collapses. An open war [i.e., not in trenches] will be aimed at by all means. Fighting . . . in extended war areas . . . will cause casualties in large spaces . . . high numbers." Major Brandi estimated that in brief, strongly resisted attacks, daily casualties per 100 fighting men would be as high as 15, in prolonged battle, five to seven for attackers, four to six for defenders; that 20% of the wounded would be gas cases (compared...
...thinks so because they are not getting "the straight" tip on Economics and American History," as he put it in an interview yesterday before he left Cambridge after a brief visit during which he read some cantos in a Morris Gray lecture...
...distinguished writer has been living abroad for thirty years and in diffident about; criticizing his native land after so brief a re-acquaintance. But he has just come from a two weeks stay in Washington where he gave serious attention to the workings of the government, and he found most of America's his could be blamed on Money...
...where the picture has been shown before. . . ." > "He finds he can't get lunch in the building; and, if he leaves, he has to pay another admission. . . ." > "It would cost very little to give each patron a leaflet with a small map of the building and a brief sketch of the most important things to be seen and where to find them...
...since mid-November have steel operations been at 62% of capacity. The steel rate, after a brief stand somewhere between 50 and 55, ended last week at 48.6%, began this week at 47.8%. Optimists looked for a scapegoat, found it in the coal tie-up. Typical headline: "Coal Situation Retards Steel Operation Rate...