Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleased to find in the May 10 issue of TIME an art map of New York City together with brief descriptions of several of the well-known museums...
Professor Seymour has requested that the ceremonies be simple and brief, and as much like these in connection with the installing of the first presidents...
...before going into any detailed analysis of the points which came up in connection with the concentrators' meetings, a brief definition of the functions and purposes of Harvard University must be considered. Much of the criticism to which the University has been subjected in the past few years--criticism which flared up into nasty recriminations this Spring over the dismissal of two of the younger faculty men--comes from confusion in the minds of those who control the destinies of the University as to just what the functions and purposes of a University...
...entire effectiveness of the Leftist Government has been in the series of compromises making it possible for a mixed salad of political parties to work in some sort of harmony. Immediately behind last week's Cabinet crisis was the brief Anarchist revolt in Barcelona of fortnight ago (TIME. May 17). Premier Largo Caballero and President Luis Companys of Catalonia are both secretly determined to put the Anarchists, most hot-headed of Leftist groups, in their places, but the Anarchists are politically potent. The mere possibility of an unfavorable Cabinet revision caused the Socialist . labor union, U.G.T.. to announce...
...June 22. The court ruled that the Garden's contract with Braddock "places an unreasonable restraint upon his liberty." For the benefit of fight fans who want to keep up with the heavyweight legal tangle, the New York Times's versatile Sportswriter John Kieran submitted this brief at week...