Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brief period early last season his revamped Athletics rode along in first place, but the hot pace finally told on his rookies and they finished seventh. But despite his ailments and his 75 years, Connie Mack is not disheartened. "I certainly hope to be back waving a score card next spring," he said. "I am putting myself in condition now for the forthcoming campaign. . . . It's such a little time I've been around. I want to have one more championship...
...bituminous coal mines in the U. S. and last year they produced 430,000,000 tons of soft coal. On each of these tons producers lost an average of 11?. This state of affairs in the $3,500,000,000 coal industry was no 1936 phenomenon; save for a brief respite under NRA it has been the normal condition of coal since 1923. After NRA came the Guffey Coal Act (also found unconstitutional) and finally last spring the Guffey-Vinson Act creating a seven-man National Bituminous Coal Commission. This body, with powers much like those of an NRA code...
After his death in 1901, a brief, old-fashioned travel diary was found among Bishop Whipple's papers. When he was 21, ill-health had driven him South for the winter, on a long, tedious, weakening journey. He went from New York to Savannah on a first-class merchantman, from Savannah to St. Augustine by steamer, across Georgia "on the worst railroad ever invented," by river boat from New Orleans to St. Louis, up the Ohio on the crowded, dirty Goddess of Liberty ("anything but a goddess," wrote young Whipple sourly). by stage ("far pleasanter than on a rail...
After the World Series and before the spring training camps open, U. S. baseball fans find little to read about their favorite sport. In December they usually have a brief bright spot when the businessmen who run baseball get together to swap players. This year's meetings were not as bright as usual...
...there was more in Miss Pons than met the ear. When Suzette (Lily Pons), singing in Paris with a jazz band, declares "It is to sing in opera that I would give my shirt," it is therefore not surprising that she should indeed trade her shirt, etc. for a brief costume of feathers and a habitat in darkest Africa. Her purpose, inspired by Pressagent Corny Davis (Jack Oakie), is to catch the attention of Talent Scout Lucius B. Blynn (Edward Everett Horton), in Africa on a big-game-hunting vacation...