Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nine years the whole world (pop. 2,134,000,000), with brief exceptions here and there, has been in a Great Depression. At some point in these bitter years, the post-War world became a pre-War world-that is, a world anticipating World War. Millions and millions of young men, in the U.S. as elsewhere, had a War marked fatalistically on their private calendars...
...better himself. He did not quite manage the farm in Essex, but he became the licensee of a pub in Oldham, Lancashire. "Yungg Alber" was a man of feeling; like his uncle, he always took pride in making his victim's grim death throes as light and brief as possible. His new pub had an appropriate name. It was called: "Help the Poor Struggler...
...morning last week, in a downtown store of Columbia, Tenn., a Negro woman, her son and a white man engaged in a brief scuffle. Its cause was obscure; its result was a tragedy...
...speech, before his respectful colleagues in the Senate, was brief. It was a statement of a nation's sense of pride and justice. It was a challenge to the Administration, Russia, the world...
...TIME, Sept. 25, 1939) and Reprisal (TIME, Nov. 16, 1942), Author Vance, who under her real name (Grace Zaring Stone) also wrote The Bitter Tea of General Yen, has used her talent for melodrama to best-selling effect. .But Winter Meeting is quite a different kind of book-a brief, sharp study of the way in which lives may be turned upside down in the twinkling...