Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...membership also voted to empower the executive board to approve a resolution supporting the brief of Richard Wallach '49 1L to the State Commission on Education attacking St. Benedict's Center...
...when they return, the argument has lost its tone. And the fan takes over again, and the heat and the relaxed air and the memory of so many good little dinners is so many good little illegal places, with the theme of love, the sound of ventilation, the brief medicinal illusion...
...brief visit to the U.S., Britain's Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery (see INTERNATIONAL) got his first whiff of the ubiquitous U.S. columnists. As Montgomery sailed from Manhattan last week, ship newsmen asked him about Columnist Drew Pearson's story on Monty's conferences with U.S. Chief of Staff Omar Bradley and others. Pearson reported that Monty had urged Bradley to rearm Germany. Up went Monty's eyebrows. "What in the world is a columnist?" he asked in bewilderment. "How did he know that? ... I didn't know this chap was in the room...
...first it seemed simply to be a few isolated cases of thoughtlessness by real University maintenance men. But a brief investigation has turned up such a staggering weight of evidence that we can no longer strain coincidence for an explanation...
...Your brief coverage of the two hours of actual debate was obtuse and certainly insulting to Mr. Hughes, whose contribution to the debate you totally ignored. And Mr. welcker never "urged . . . abandonment of the Marshall Plan." You reiterated your earlier misinterpretation about the dichotomy of political parties and made Schlesinger sound like the milk toast compromisers he detests . . . Sheldon L. Berens...