Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shut-out lasted only about an hour because Chemist Seydel's paper was brief. Then as the convention resumed its customary frankness, President Bartow gave out this statement: "The representatives of the American Chemical Society and the American Medical Association agree that the difficulties which have ensued in the past will be eliminated in the future by closer co-operation...
Peter Harvard is in our midst, quietly surveying the scene that has made his family name famous. Although a guest of the University, Peter has been dodging publicity during his brief stay in Cambridge, and has doggedly refused to appear publicly at any of the funrtions...
...Philadelphia last fortnight, at a Robin Hood Dell Concert, José Iturbi led the Philadelphia Orchestra and Violinist Albert Spalding through the first movement of a Beethoven concerto. When, in a brief interval that followed, news cameramen began popping flashbulbs and snapping pictures, Iturbi and Spalding flounced off the stage. From an anteroom where they fumed & raged for ten minutes, a chair came whizzing into the audience's view. Explained Iturbi later: "I was annoyed and I blew...
...beliefs in "fundamental American doctrines." A graduate of the Kansas City Star, Wesley Winans Stout has been one of the Post's associates for twelve years, has written and ghost-written many an article. Last week he set out on a motor trip with his wife for a brief vacation before slipping his solid, substantial and Republican person into George Horace Lorimer's editorial chair before the first of the year...
...each other. Thereupon he marries Lady Jane Grey (Nova Pilbeam) to his son and has her crowned. Nine days later Mary Tudor, Henry VIII's daughter, storms into London with the northern counties at her back and ends upon the scaffold Warwick's cloudy dreaming and the brief, pitiable queenship of his daughter...