Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This letter refers to a brief article captioned "The Vanishing Druggist" [TIME, Jan. 14]. It is alleged to be a summing up of evidence presented in the January issue of the publication, American Druggist. . . . I referred at once to the source of the alleged "totting up" of evidence and found in the January issue no basis for the statements made in TIME...
...watts of power, echoing back from the moon came only 9/10,000,000,000,000,000 of a watt-that was strong enough to be received clearly. On the visual "scope" the echo showed as a wiggle in a luminous blue line, and could be heard as a brief hum. It came at the right time for a 450,000-mile round trip-about 2.4 seconds after the outgoing pulse...
...literary lion of Paris bounced into Manhattan last week for a brief lecture tour (stops at Yale, Harvard, Princeton). He put up at a genteel midtown hotel-partly because he could find no other lodging, partly because it did not matter: he has a bohemian preference for unpretentious surroundings; in Paris, the literary lion makes his den in the dingy, unheated Hotel Louisiane. Few Americans had heard even vaguely of earnest, ebullient Jean-Paul Sartre, novelist, playwright, essayist and prophet of the philosophy of life known as "Existentialism." But more were likely to become aware of him and his message...
...With the Marines at Tarawa, a combat film which is almost as brief, terrible and final as a jump off a skyscraper...
Myris Chaney, who caused a brief flurry of headlines in 1942 when she was taken up as a dancer by Eleanor Roosevelt and given an OCD job, was back in the news as a landlord. Now a milliner in San Francisco, she had solved her housing problem by buying an apartment building with her husband and moving in. Chaney & husband said they charged tenants the same old rent. OPA claimed an overcharge and sued for triple damages...