Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After a brief talk with Secretary of State Hull in Manhattan, Mr. Wilson passed through Washington, where it was announced by the State Department that he would stay in the U. S. a while to "advise" the Department on Central European doings. To join their conversations at Warm Springs, President Roosevelt summoned William ("Bill") Phillips, his Ambassador to the other Jew-purging dictatorship, Italy, who returned to the U. S. early last month on leave...
...Authority, an autonomous body set up jointly by New York and New Jersey, is not essential to the existence of either State (TIME, June 13). If that kind of corn is good for the Federal gander, argued New York's Attorney General John J. Bennett in a brief he filed with Supreme Court last week, then it is also good for State geese...
...shown on the books in the annual Treasurer's Report to the Overseers may cause uninformed persons undue alarm. However, the simple facts, when divorced from their monetary terminology, reveal that Harvard, despite this book loss, is actually as financially solid as it has been in the past. In brief, some millions of dollars were added to the book valuation of the University shortly after the late-lamented boom. Its investments were apparently worth more, so Harvard decided to value them at an increased figure on its books. Now changing business conditions, and perhaps the accounting policies...
...pretty arbitrary accounting period . . . In fact . . . it might be almost as rational to demand that the balance appear each month." The author concludes by warning that if no solution to these afflictions is forthcoming that capitalism is doomed. He presents his own "home remedies" for these evils necessarily brief and superficial, but which point out a possible means of escape from increasingly serious economic dislocations...
...held up an exaggerating mirror to the English public's face and showed them a visage as distorted as a Coney Island reflection. His pen was undoubtedly the most feared of his era, and he wrote publicly and anonymously, over-seriously and over-humorously, at length and in brief, even in baby talk--whichever best suited his mood. And almost single-handed, he pulled English literature and society a step upward out of its complacent mire...