Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made self-supporting on land which can eventually belong to them." Social Security. "In many nations where such laws are in effect success in meeting the expectations of the community has come through frequent amendment of the original statute." NRA- Halfway through his speech, President Roosevelt had drawn numerous brief bursts of applause, had stirred his audience to no excitement. Then he came to the point which he wished to drive home: whether or not-all other opposition having been crushed-the Supreme Court was still to stand in the way of the New Deal. To approach it, he turned...
...program for the H-Y-P Conference, which will remedy the minor defects of the Princeton Conference last year, has been adopted by the three undergraduate dailies in charge of the conference. It will begin with a luncheon meeting at 1 o'clock on Friday, February 26. A single brief address will be delivered...
Since Joseph Conrad no writer has equalled his unforgettable stories of the ''glorious and obscure toil" of seamen. Few have tried, and of these William McFee and H. M. Tomlinson, at their best, have been fortunate enough to emerge for brief moments from the vast shadow which Conrad cast over the sea in literature...
...stage and screen star was the true feminine counterpart of the Harvardian's idea of dressing for comfort. Despite constant interruptions from the horde of autograph-seekers and hangers-on around her dressing-room, she shot back alert replies, seemed to enjoy her only exclusive interview during her brief Hub visit...
...Barabas neighbors were responsible for most of this. There was Liiv, a Lithuanian professor who had been a socialist dictator of food supplies in a brief post-War revolution and whose friend was now Bardichinov, who had been a banker in Russia. When Primo de Rivera is in power in Spain they are joined by a gentle anarchist named Alvarez; when Rivera falls, Alvarez disappears, replaced by the courtly Spanish Prince Maura. When Mussolini takes power in Italy a cultivated minister of finance appears with his beautiful daughter. At first the refugees plot and conspire, then gradually make friends until...