Word: briefness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Rolf Kaltenborn '37, president of the Harvard Student Union, introduced Edwards. Laurence S. Levy '39, prefaced his remarks with a brief talk on the recent regional conference of New England affiliates at Smith College...
...ranked as an instructor. In his comparatively brief career at Harvard he turned out only a handful of students. A smaller handful still will ever be what some of his colleagues would call men of letters. But even in his short time he made English 31, or whatever they call it now, clearly the best composition course Harvard has had for many years. Any qualified person will tell you, moreover, that in the field of American literature Mr. De Voto's ability can be equalled only with difficulty. I cannot believe that Harvard does not know what everyone knows...
...partnership he has set his heart on, Barney Glasgow has to do more than spur his gang on to a record cutting. He has to marry the boss's unappealing daughter. For this high hurdle in ambition's path he gets up courage by a brief affair with a dance-hall hostess (Frances Farmer), not the least of whose charms is a convenient knack of converting beer trays into lethal missiles in a barroom brawl. When Glasgow goes off to marry his heiress, the eccentric Swede foreman (Walter Brennan) who has been his best friend stays...
...Spellman of Boston and Stephen J. Donahue of New York, the Cardinal Secretary's gentleman-in-waiting, Enrico Galeazzo, and two Catholic New Dealers, Joseph P. Kennedy and Frank C. Walker, with their wives. The party was whisked over to Hyde Park for luncheon followed by a brief private chat between Cardinal and President. Two hours later, back in the special train, Cardinal Pacelli received newshawks, protected by Bishop Spellman from being badgered into saying anything more than: "I enjoyed my visit very much. It was a great opportunity to meet the President and his truly American family...
...almost unknown, the only reprint badly bowdlerized and the original issue, published in 1822, unnoticed at the time it appeared. The Life and Adventures of John Nicol is one of the first autobiographies of the sea written from the point of view of a common sailor. A brief, well-written book, beautifully Dound and illustrated in its present edition, it tells the story of a sailor who was born near Edinburgh in 1755, sailed to Canada, the West Indies, the South Seas, was pressed into service in 1794 and took part in the battles of Cape St. Vincent and Aboukir...