Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each branch of sport is treated separately, arranged in the order in which the competitions with Yale began--rowing, baseball, football, track and field athletics, hockey and, finally, brief statements about lawn tennis and golf, for the "H" is given to Harvard men who win the intercollegiate tennis championship in singles or doubles and to men who win the intercollegiate golf championship...
...another committee hearing, special attention was paid to the economic plight of U.S. postmen. Before a Senate Civil Service subcommittee appeared beauteous Mrs. Jeanne Bolen, mother of three and wife of a Washington letter carrier. In a few brief minutes of testimony, she showed the Senators what inflation is doing to all people on fixed salaries. She reported that even though she does all her own housework, her annual budget adds up to $3,274.71, including $49 for her husband's work shoes, but nothing for recreation or emergencies. Yet Mr. Bolen makes only $3,100 a year. Added...
...Force's notion, in brief, is that the most destructive counterblows can be delivered by very heavy, long-range bombers, land-based. This thesis was propounded by Air Force General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz and vehemently seconded by Stuart Symington, who as a civilian producer of bomber gun turrets had visited London during the blitz and had never forgotten what he had seen there. Ground-force generals agreed with Spaatz...
...student rallying-ground, the Progressive has not succeeded so markedly. Despite attempts to extend its authorship beyond the immediate Harvard vicinity, and despite sporadic circulation drives on various national campuses, the Progressive's ties with the local Liberal Union have yet to be severed. Of the eight articles, a brief book review, and an editorial which the latest issue contains, only two come from elsewhere than the Cambridge-Boston area. These two are a report of the Christian Socialist movement in Oxford by a student at that British university and a rather pessimistic study of the UN by ex-foreign...
...Brief Statement...