Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SOLDIERS-Edited by Wirt Armistead Gate-University of North Carolina Press ($2.50). The diaries of 26-year-old Robert Campbell of the Union Army and 33-year-old Confederate Captain Thomas Keys, who fought on opposite sides around Atlanta. Campbell's diary is brief, unilluminating, but Keys, who had been a newspaper editor, wrote vividly of the battles of Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, Nashville, of a journey through Union country to visit his wife & children at Helena...
...read a brief statement in your valuable weekly as I returned from Chicago and was surprised that one of your writers would say I was ill dressed in Berlin [TIME, March 14]. While I am not an advocate of time-wasting performances, I was as well dressed as any of the other diplomats-not in Hitler uniforms of course. Not only so; my clothes fit me as well as anybody could wish. How such a view as was expressed in your journal...
...headed for Paris, had his car sideswiped on the way in the reconstructed town of Arras, called in the top-flight Paris correspondents, questioned them closely on the European political situation. Next day Looker & Listener Hoover conferred with President Albert Lebrun in his Elysée Palace. During a brief stay in Geneva he piqued League officials by ignoring their new $10,000,000 palace, instead motored to nearby Morges and chatted "about old times" with his friend of 40 years, 77-year-old Pianist-Politician Ignacy Jan Paderewski, former Premier of Poland, now in Switzerland...
...emits light. Relativity also explains eccentricities in Mercury's orbit, which had remained a mystery under Newtonian mechanics. Atom-smashers who build cyclotrons (machines in which atomic projectiles are whirled by electric and magnetic fields) take into careful consideration the Relativistic increase in mass of fast particles. In brief, Relativity has become an everyday tool of astronomers and physicists...
Japan, predicts Journalist Price, will conquer China with "magnificent success." She will introduce orderly government, eliminate illiteracy, raise China industrially and culturally to the level of the first-class powers. At that point, "a brief hundred years or so" hence. China will revolt and resume "her ancient position of leadership...