Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the game tonight the Crimson hoopsters will return to Cambridge in preparation for their clash with Boston University, which will be played at B. U. tomorrow night. Friday will offer a brief period of respite to the Feslermen as they travel to Philadelphia where they will meet the University of Pennsylvania in the opening game of their Eastern Intercollegiate League schedule...
This year that dominant moppet, Rachael Low, 13, her sister Prudence, 15, and their mother accompanied Low on a banging, booming holiday. First shots were in the harbor of Lisbon, where two Portuguese war boats fired live projectiles in a brief mutiny (TIME, Sept. 21 ) before the Lows sailed on to South America, stopped at Buenos Aires while persons unknown threw a bomb at the British Embassy without much effect. Because the bearded Low is definitely pink in his politics, Britons expected him to be kind with his pencil to President Roosevelt in Washington. Last week, with Low just back...
...interludes that are made up of snapshots of city life: quarreling tenement dwellers, lovers lying on the roof in the heat, card players in a midtown hotel, a pair of middle-aged Lesbians quarreling, a sailor picking up a girl. Main trouble with When Night Descends is that the brief snapshots break up the central story, are usually more interesting and original than the one they interrupt...
...brief announcement from an office on Manhattan's Pine Street last week wound up U. S. v. Sugar Institute, Inc. et al, most significant anti-trust case since the dissolution of old Standard Oil Co. in 1911. After spending five of its nine years in litigation, the Sugar Institute was officially closing its doors...
Bowing slightly, the clairvoyant ended the brief seance. The next in line was a fluttery shop girl, who seemed to know all the answers, anyway...