Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There will be a brief letup when the Varsity returns to Cambridge, with two games apiece with Brown and North-western flanking the exam period. But in mid-February, Army, B.U., Princeton, Dartmouth, B.C., and Yale follow in quick succession. It's going to be a cold winter...
...must proceed in the Mexican way, he will find the average Mexican approachable, friendly, and lots of fun. The first sign that he understands how things go in Mexico comes when he decides that a watch is irksome to the wrist, puts it away and depends thereafter on brief glimpses of street clocks, which are almost invariably wrong...
...Marshall-Douglas conversation was brief. "Douglas, I'm calling to ask you if you'll accept the ambassadorship to Britain." "You take my breath away. I'll have to think about it." "What is your immediate reaction, Douglas?" "My immediate response is favorable. I'd like four days to think about it." On the fourth day Lew accepted...
...best from the streets outside, where scores of newsmen covered the processional route. Buffeted by the surging crowds along the Mall, Middleton was lifted up by their surging spirit, as "a river of scarlet and gold and steel flowed through the shabby, cheerful masses of Britain. . . . For a brief moment the pace of the strident, terrible 20th Century was slowed to the trot of cavalry horses...
...winter circuit about to begin, Jimmy Demaret is, at present, 1947's most successful pro golfer. His 1947 earnings to date are $23,636, which gives him a slight lead over South Africa's Bobby Locke ($22,927) and fellow-Texan Ben Hogan ($22,310). For a brief vacation (he competes eleven months out of twelve), the veteran pro headed home to Houston to shoot deer and ducks...