Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seldom has Cecil B. De Mille recaptured so successfully the sweep of panoramic action which was his hallmark in the silent days. Often his cameras, handled by four of Hollywood's topflight cinematographers, clinch the pictorial language of the plains in brief, consummate idioms: a stagecoach ribboning down the long slant of a prairie shoulder; the Cheyennes charging up a shallow river riding so evenly their ranks look like a drift of mist; braves in war paint raiding a cabin where two women are alone; a herd of buffalo, with a scout's horse among them grazing...
Last month Dr. Perrin Hamilton Long of Johns Hopkins risked criticism by presenting a brief, preliminary report concerning Prontosil to the Southern Medical Association. Up to last week the Journal of the American Medical Association, which has the biggest (95,200) circulation of all medical publications, printed not a word about Prontosil or Prontylin. Cautious Editor Morris Fishbein, who was educated to be a pathologist, has on at least one previous occasion nearly scorched his editorial nose by prematurely poking it into news of chemical drugs. It will be a long time before he forgets publishing in his Journal...
...Science this month Professor Einstein published a brief communication entitled "Lens-like Action of a Star by the Deviation of Light in the Gravitational Field." It appeared that a Bohemian-born dishwasher named Rudi Mandl had come to him with an idea which he wanted the good grey sage of Princeton to formulate in mathematical terms. The idea: that in a certain very special circumstance the space-curvature around a star would act like an optical lens on the light from an-other star. Einstein showed that if an observer viewed two stars, one much farther away than the other...
...think for sheer excellence in terseness of writing I have seldom read anything better than your account of Effie Crawford's pre-present and post-natal experiences. The condensation of economic, sociologic, psychologic, and physiologic into those brief paragraphs was indeed masterful...
After Francis O. Mathiessen, associate professor of history and former Head Tutor of the House, had given a brief talk on the significance of the gift, John M. Potter '26, instructor and tutor in history and literature, spoke of the personality of the House Master. Potter, who is the present Head Tutor of the House, commented particularly on the distinction of Professor Merriman's record as Master and the hospitality he has demonstrated in filling...