Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dead reckoning on the crest of a 60-m.p.h. gale. In the four hours it took him to reach the Mississippi somewhere near St. Louis, three events broke the monotony of his 375-m.p.h. speed-two glimpses of land through the clouds, a brief flurry when his mask went askew. Not until he saw the long furrows of the Alleghenies did Flyer Hughes slant down in a long power dive to Newark. There, no one was aware of his coming until the crescendoing whine of his racing engine jerked heads aloft. Like an angry dragonfly, the little ship buzzed across...
Midyear period or no midyear period, this world of ours continues its irresistible progress toward perdition. Herewith we append a brief survey of events in the world today, which, depending on your previous condition of servitude, you can lay at the door of (a.) the sit-down strikers, (b.) the weather man, or (c.) Madam Secretary Perkins...
...find that she too is tainted with the intrigue of the court which he despises, that she has been hired by the Emperor to spy on him. There is in this conflict between the ideal and the practical an inherent tragedy which nothing can destroy, and there is the brief moments in which this tragic sense makes itself felt through the wrapping of Mr. Anderson's verse which give value to "The Masque of Kings". But for the most part it lies smothered beneath a flood of words, words which for the most part are not very beautiful and mean...
...Root-Pitney" members who will divide the winner's check are W. Parmer Fuller and Gerald M. Trautman, speakers; and Clarence M. Condon, Bernard E. Drape, Robert S. Fougner, Leslie L. Roos Malcolm I. Ruddock, and Arthur L. Webber, all of whom worked on the brief...
...members who will receive the less substantial loser's check, are Dwight K. Parsons and Andrew S. Grey, speakers; and John G. Brooks, 2d., Samuel W. Earnshaw, John G. Hurd, Thomas W. Leidy, Frederic J. Poor, Jr., and Howard S. Whiteside, who worked on the brief...