Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Referring to your brief note on our headmaster's death in ... TIME, we feel that you misunderstand the sentiments of the boys in St. Paul's School towards Dr. Drury...
Last month was a big one in Author De Voto's career. His publishers, Little, Brown, brought out a brief, uncritical biographical study by Garrett Mattingly.* The Saturday Review of Literature, confirming recent Manhattan literary gossip, announced his resignation "to give his time to writing and literary research." His successor: smiling, good-natured ex-managing editor of the Saturday Review, George Stevens...
Some day the brief cultural flowering of Chicago before and during the War may seem to historians a matter of genuine literary significance. Now it looks like a forced, half-artificial, overenthusiastic affair that was principally important because it gave audiences to Carl Sandburg, Edgar Lee Masters, Vachel Lindsay and Sherwood Anderson, and because it produced the magazine, Poetry...
Unlike Japan, censorship in the U.S.S.R. is a very real factor. The approved method of gathering news, Hindmarsh said, is for a foreign correspondent to take a brief "rumor story" relayed to him from his home office, expand it into a long "dispatch," and take it down to the censor. If he approves it, the correspondent throws it away. If he disapproves, the correspondent knows the rumor is true. If he merely mumbles, the reporter has to guess...
Coach Tom Bolles' tentative first beat, which also tried a brief spin earlier during one of the temporary thaws, took an easy run down to the head of the basin, with Captain Spike Chace at stroke, John Clark 7,Doug Erickson 6, John Radway 5, John Senior 4, Dudley Talbot 3, Chandler Hovey, Jr. 2, David Scull, bow, and George Shortlidge...