Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contemporary research. The other is Outposts of Science (1935) by Bernard Jaffe, over which many a reviewer turned somersaults of admiration. Born in New York City 41 years ago, Jaffe studied chemistry at C. C.N. Y. and Columbia, went abroad with the A. E. F., made a brief venture into business, turned to chemistry teaching, is now chairman of a high-school science department, has never held a post of high scientific distinction. Yet in 1930 he won the Francis Bacon Award for the Humanizing of Knowledge with Crucibles, an account of the lives and work of great chemists...
...before the Class of 1941 has had time to fall into the pit of indifference, let us say a word about Harvard museums. In brief, they come under four classes, the University Museum, the art museums, the graduate school museums, and the miscellaneous museums...
...Nanking a brief official announcement was made last week as important as anything that has come from China in a month: The Chinese Government and the Communist Army have been fighting for the last ten years. This is the official conclusion...
...This brief caption, flashed on the screen, was all the warning U. S. cinemagoers had last week before the usually innocuous newsreel plunged them into such a bloodbath of visual horrors as few of them had ever imagined. Shown throughout the U. S. these were the first frankly gruesome newsreels of the Shanghai shambles to reach the U. S. Hundreds of feet of this hastily, dangerously made record had been ground out by cameramen under fire or within a few minutes after shellburst or bomb-explosion. They tell, as pitilessly as only the camera can, what war means...
PASTORAL-Eleanor Green-Doubleday, Dor an ($1.75). Brief, comprehensive, sensitively written account of a year two young lovers spent to good purpose in the Wisconsin countryside...