Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which is darkened on days of east wind by smoke from the steel mills in the valley, the pseudo-Renaissance building of the Carnegie Institute stands, blackened by 40 years. There last week critics of art, newspapermen and Pittsburgh's gentlest people assembled one evening to attend a brief ceremony in memory of Andrew Carnegie, then to crowd murmuring up the Institute's broad marble stairs into 17 galleries hung with 407 paintings by artists of 13 nations. The occasion was the opening of the 35th annual Carnegie International Exhibition, biggest competitive show of contemporary paintings...
Temporarily, however, grim, Orval Adams was free to return to his opposition to the New Deal. In his brief acceptance speech last week, President Adams announced as his prime objective: "We Must Do Our Part Toward Making All of the People Deficit Conscious...
...keep the freight cars of the country partially loaded. Steel capacity is far down, and the building industries, backbone of the new prosperity in England, are beginning to slide back again after only a moderate rise. All these are but isolated and striking instances of the fact that our brief moment of prosperity is over and that we are on the verge of being sucked down into the whirling spiral of depression and defeat...
...President celebrated two anniversaries, those of 1) the death of Polish General Casimir Pulaski, Revolutionary War hero, for whom he made a brief speech upholding ". . . the ideal of human society which makes conscience superior to brute strength." 2) The birthday of his wife, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, to whom he gave a watertight wrist watch to replace one she ruined at a beach last summer...
...decades" or groups of ten Ave Marias (Hail Marys) preceded by a Pater Noster (Lord's Prayer) and followed by a Gloria, while meditating on the mysteries of Christ's life, death and resurrection. Usually a Catholic says five decades, or a total of some 60 brief prayers, at a time, but the true Rosary consists of 15 decades...