Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese claims to be fighting China so that the two countries can become firm friends, even allies. In 1866 Prussia defeated Austria; in 1870 Austria was a "neutral" when Prussia fought and defeated France; and in 1914 Austria joined the Prussian War Lord as his chief ally-such in brief was the analogy from European history by which General Ugaki hoped last week to interpret to the West the faith of many Japanese that they can defeat and propagandize China into becoming their active friend, in say 50 years. To General Ugaki the fact that France, after her 1870 defeat...
...Postman Always Rings Twice James Mallahan Cain wrote a brief, brisk best-seller in which philosophic overtones could be dimly heard above the rattling melodrama of the plot. Last week he published a second novel that is just as melodramatic as his first, a little longer, equally swift reading. It has its quota of close shaves, fights, flights and two-dimensional characters, suggests an old-fashioned pulp magazine thriller brought up to date by a writer who knows Freud as well as all tricks of suspense. Its hero (and narrator) is a world-famous singer who has lost his voice...
...brief, every University facility should be thrown open for the use of these fellowship holders. And even all these facilities would be greatly bolstered if some sort of arrangement with actual newspapers and journalists were effected. This contact ought to provide an antidote for the chief flaw cited against university-taught journalism, namely, lack of actual experience in newswork or "pressure-writing...
...Nieman Prizes" from Harvard thus might bring brief glory to a few meritorious articles. But at best, they could only reward a small number of isolated cases. They would be an incentive to authors and those whose writing is of more than passing consequence, but as far as the reporter who dashes off perhaps ten hurried news stories a day and the editor who handles scores of such stories a day, it is difficult to see how more prizes could possibly improve their efforts. Prizes, then, incline to be too remote, too earmarked for the outstanding great, rather than...
Magistrate Kross decided Spit's criss-crossed viewpoint was the result of having left the slums for a brief taste of fame. She requested Playwright Kingsley, as the man responsible for the play, to report to her chambers. Wary Playwright Kingsley pleaded pressure of work, invited Magistrate Kross to visit him at his home where "we can discuss this issue rationally, as two human beings interested in a third. . . . The only real blame I have is that the play didn't run forever. I will do my best to remedy that the next time." Magistrate Kross adjourned Spit...