Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With traditional contempt for the churlish mouthings of eynies, Harvard undergraduates have energetically launched the Food Relief Committee on its current drive to aid European students. Last night a brief recount of the contributions to date showed that the College program was rumbling down the alley with increasing speed, surpassing in some houses the amazing $4.60 average donation of last summer's campaign. With the exception of one well-padded hardease who responded to the solicitor's pleas with a zine penny, students have expressed sincere concern and admirable generosity towards the tubercular scholars of Greece and China. However...
...rate story. June Rose turned up with a blue nose, some warm and revealing local color, and an anecdote: the "blinking coal crisis" did not deter a fish porter she interviewed at Billingsgate from offering her mussels, which she loathes but "swallowed-in the interest of TIME," giving a brief rèsumeè of the history of the 400-year-old market and, as a parting shot, bestowing a calendar upon her which told among other things the price of fish in the reign of Edward...
Sometimes the fog sweeps in from Narsarssuak Fjord, drowning the Quonset huts of the U.S. airport under a grey sea. Sometimes winds from the towering snow-mantled peaks moan across the glacial delta on which the airstrip is built, setting G.I.nerves on edge. In the pale, brief sunlight and long gloom of Greenland's winter, it does not take much to give a G.I. "cabin fever"- a disease which becomes acute when the mail is late...
...picket line in front of L'Humanité was rushed by 350 members of a Comité de Défense de L'Humanitè, a fancy name for a gang of thugs hired by L'Humanité's circulation department. After a brief battle, the pickets (about half of whom were members of the Communist Party) beat off L'Humanité's defenders. In similar cases capitalist publishers would be likely to charge that the strike was led by Communists. L'Humanité could not do that. Its friends said the strike was led by Trotskyites...
...this week by Phillips Brooks House. Appealing for undergraduates to man local settlement houses, the Social Service Committee paints a picture of worthwhile experience to be gained-and an urgent present need for manpower. Although one-hundred and three Harvardmen trek each week to congested districts in Boston for brief sessions with young people's groups, and unlimited number could be promptly placed; the more children can be brought in from the streets...