Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many of these 35-odd items could be blown up into full-size news stories, but our editors feel that when a man everybody knows gets married, or a woman whose name isa household term has a baby, etc., a brief recording of these events is all you want to know. They are a part of the condensation which permits TIME to tell as much of the week's news as it is possible to tell...
...failed to find one that suited him. Disappointed, he served a brief stint on the family newspaper, then went to Manhattan to try his hand at advertising. Another youngster named William Benton, a year older but four years richer in experience, hired him to write trade-paper ads for the old Batten agency at $25 a week...
...first time, an event in Washington was televised over a brand-new 225-mile coaxial cable to New York.* In Manhattan's RCA building, New Yorkers saw General Dwight Eisenhower place a wreath at the base of the Lincoln statue, heard others make brief speeches. But comparing the image with newsphotos of the same event, they found it as blurred as an early Chaplin movie. Proud as television was, it admitted that the Washington-New York hookup would not be in regular use for six months, that a coast-to-coast network was still years away...
Professor Frederick L. Schuman's book is probably the ablest apology for Russia ever written by an American. It is like a brilliant brief by a very clever lawyer who is fortified rather than handicapped by knowing that his client did commit the murder, and even where the body is buried...
...radium, the glass fragments and the steel gave off alpha rays (ionized helium atoms), beta rays (electrons) and gamma rays (natural X rays). The proportions of the rays varied with the material. The steel gave off the most gamma rays. Sometimes the radiation from a piece gave a sudden, brief spurt, much above its normal level...