Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brief news item in the CRIMSON on December 2 concerning a talk I delivered at Harvard on the Foreign Service gave a somewhat distorted impression of what I intended to convey...
...advance information that General Education once held all by itself. Now the undergraduate with an eye towards dabbling a bit in Social Relations, the concentrator looking for now courses to conquer, and the prospective graduate student all have some sort of concrete preview of what lies behind those 32 brief listings in the back of the catalogue. Perhaps now some of the hasty shuffling from course to course at the beginning of the term, some of the long lingerings over yet-to-be-filled-in-study cards can be avoided...
This decision, made last March, was not the first of its kind for Hank Myers, who would fly the President to Key West for a brief vacation this week. As a command pilot, Lieut. Colonel Henry Tift Myers, holder of a "Green Ticket"* in the Air Transport Command, has the authority to clear his plane to any destination under any flight plan he elects. As personal pilot for the President, Hank Myers' decisions are not always easy...
Through such prestige films as Henry V and Brief Encounter, British Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank got a size ten foot in the door of the world movie market. But last week, as Hollywood had long predicted, Rank was preparing to sacrifice quality for quantity and go after the U.S. market with mass production...
Despite the brief period he has had to whip his men into shape, Kopp is all smiles when he mulls over his prospects for the current season, for his chances for a successful campaign are unusually bright. An outstanding Freshman quintet from last season has moved up to the Jayvee ranks intact and has provided Kopp with a formidable nucleus for his 20-man squad...