Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...saved sufficient money to join the great immigration wave to America and to make sightseeing stopovers along the way at Marseilles, Paris, London, Liverpool, and Halifax. Reaching Boston with one lone dollar to his name, he first worked in a friend's establishment on Essex Street and after a brief stint on his own in the Hub made the move to Cambridge. He had never enjoyed an education of his own so basking in the erudition of others appeared an attractive substitute. "If you gonna go near a big college," he explains thirty-five years after, "you be 'round...
...brief on labor laws and a meeting which resulted in more than 40 telegrams to President Truman and various members of the Senate are the two other official protests made by the group against the proposed laws...
...Vatican, rises punctually at 6:30 every morning. He throws open the window of his bedroom (on the third floor of the Vatican Palace) looking out on St. Peter's Square, and with hands crossed, prays. His is a busy day, so this first prayer is brief. He turns back to the room and opens the other two windows. Timing himself with a small Swiss pocket alarm clock, the Pope then does his physical exercises. At 71, he has discarded his rowing machine and limits his exercise to 15 minutes of Swedish drill, bending his knees and flexing...
...A.B.C., 18,000 men compete and the odds are against any one expert. In the singles, each man is limited to three games. In so brief a test, he has no chance to study the beds (alleys), get the feel of the wood,-the bounce of the floor. The best Varipapa could do was to roll 13 consecutive strikes...
Following a brief adventure as one of the Naval School "ships" during World War I, Mem's usefulness gradually declined after it was released from dining hall service in 1924. Since then the Great Hall hodgepodge of ornate tapestries, stained glass windows, portraits, and busts, has withdrawn into brooding silence broken only by an occasional dance or banquet. Students have come to look upon the hall as a den of horror, where they suffer either from the crush of registration or the torture of exams. Only rarely are the riotous days of the past recalled. Mem most recently shuddered from...