Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...canopies were put up at the doors of the baggage cars, long Army trucks backed up to the spur track to be loaded with the 400-troy-oz. bricks. As each truck was loaded it was convoyed by two of the Seventh Cavalry's combat cars on its brief trip to the squat depository building. Few days later the process was repeated as $120,000,000 was shipped from the U. S. Assay Office in Manhattan...
...attempt to clarify the reading. Professor Frickey does his best to break down the formality of the atmosphere by occasionally answering questions, but the class has expanded beyond the discussion stage. What little personal contact one does make during the half year is gleaned solely from the altogether too brief weekly laboratory sections. With three hours of laboratory work crammed into a two-hour session is it any wonder that 90 per cent of the enrollment finds itself cranking adding machines in Boylston through most of the Reading Period...
About six months ago the Tate Gallery got out a new catalog of its modern French paintings. Under the name of each artist was a brief and extremely reticent biography. One of these referred to a Spanish artist named Maurice Utrillo, 1883-deceased, painter of Paris street scenes. Within a week the catalog was withdrawn from circulation and a correction was made, but to no avail...
Around the question of what if any changes President Hartford might now admit in this policy a brief tempest raged last fortnight in the Great Atlantic & Pacific teapot. Reproduced on the January cover of the advertising magazine Tide was a yellow handbill circulated last month by A & P stores in New Orleans. Headlined "Compare! Save 29%!" the handbill listed in parallel columns 15 nationally known food products against 15 equivalents manufactured by A & P, all sold in A & P stores. The prices in the outside brand column added up to $2.40; those in the A & P products column...
Last week Princess Toumanova published a brief (239-page), cool but careful biography of her late great countryman...