Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the course of his daily post-practice discussion with the press, Art Valpey took time out to give a brief demonstration of the tremendous variety in results which can grow out of a single operation...
...long line of books that make life hard for generations of preachers of Anglo-American amity.* Now they will have a chance to read it in the best edition to date, with the original illustrations by France's Auguste Hervieu and copious notes, addenda, and a brief biography of Author Trollope supplied by Editor Donald Arthur Smalley of the University of Illinois...
Robert Lowry's first book, Casualty, published in 1946, was a story of stagnation in a U.S. Army camp in Italy, of sullen enlisted men, buck-passing officers, drunkenness, boredom, brief and fatal outbreaks of violence. His second, Find Me in Fire (1948), told of the return of a crippled soldier to his home town after the war, and of his inability to find a place for himself in it again. The Wolf That Fed Us, published earlier this year, was a collection of eight war stories, which had the spare narrative, the graphic power and something...
Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru of India arrives by air from New York City this morning to pay brief visits to Harvard, Wellesloy, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...villa at Lac des lies. In the course of his visitation to this uninhabited ares, he came upon a very young and altogether wretched cow moose upon whom he took immediate pity. He swept the gawky calf into his arms and carried it back to his house. After a brief meditation, he decided that the animal should be removed to his stable in Shawinigan Falls and trained to peform some useful duty...