Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council have furnished very little in the way of constructive advice. Last January the suggestion for hiring a firm of management consultants to investigate the University dining halls was made to the Council. No action has been taken, however, in spite of the statement by a firm after a brief survey that the conditions could be improved at a saving in cost...
...city except the dock area, Jewish soldiers began to filter into the town. Others gathered on the slopes of Mount Carmel. One morning at i a.m. they struck. Behind a creeping mortar barrage, the Jews moved into the Arab quarters of the city. Bewildered Arabs gathered for one brief counterattack, then collapsed in leaderless confusion. Within a day, the Jews had taken Haifa...
...Kingdom of England is only 1,000 years old." "These last 6,000 years-brief though they are . . ." "After all, the reign of man on the Earth . . . is so far only about 100,000 years...
...descendants of "the winged insects [which came] into existence about 250 million years ago." Could these ants and bees "acquire even that glimmer of intellectual understanding that man has possessed in his day," they might rebuild civilization-looking back on "the advent of the mammals, and the brief reign of the human mammal, as almost irrelevant episodes, 'full of sound and fury, signifying nothing...
...Jayvees were left waiting at the alter Saturday when the Boston Lacrosse Club's errant second team failed to appear according to schedule. But Coach Eddie Davis remained undaunted by this turn of events, held a brief practice session, and came up with a game with M.I.T. here this afternoon