Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nine years the whole world (pop. 2,134,000,000), with brief exceptions here and there, has been in a Great Depression. At some point in these bitter years, the post-War world became a pre-War world-that is, a world anticipating World War. Millions and millions of young men, in the U. S. as elsewhere, had a War marked fatalistically on their private calendars...
...retrace the steps of post-War diplomacy, unravel post-War complexities. But refreshing memories of events since the Armistice makes last week's war news seem less abrupt, the transition from post-War to pre-War less startling. Against the broad sweep of history, that period is brief-246 months, 1,063 weeks, 7,453 days, time for 20 wheat crops, for 20 classes to graduate...
There are too many brief reviews. I feel it would be better for the reader, at least, if there were only one or two, with the reviewer given space to move around in and to argue his points. Harry Brown is confused by T. S. Eliot's last play, and waits for elucidation by "such people as Mr. Ransom or Mr. Tate or Mr. Blackmur...
...year, and there will have to be "a next year" if the conference idea is to go on, the leaders will see to it that the final group meeting either is guided by the faculty panel experts and not by student rapporteurs or will become merely a series of brief comparative reports and not a mass-meeting of pressure groups and lobby-lovers. This change would make for a novel experiment in a combination between the "dogmatism of experts" and the freedom of student thought which has never been achieved in collegiate conferences...
...information on neurology.* Last week, at Yale University, most of the 46 members of the Society, together with a large group of physicians from Vancouver to Boston, met to celebrate the 70th birthday of the world's greatest neurologist. For two and a half days the scientists presented brief reports on their latest accomplishments. On April 8, they capped the celebration by surprising Dr. Cushing with a birthday bibliography of all his writings. Said Dr. Cushing, overwhelmed: "I am deeply gratified and touched...