Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pine-paneled, air-conditioned office, Eugenio Garza, president of Monterrey's big Cuauthémoc Brewery, reached for the phone and began calling numbers in the city's well-filled business directory. What he had to say was brief and to the point: "Tecnológico needs more money." In the next mail came the first trickle of what later amounted to a flood of checks made out to Monterrey Institute of Technology, a Mexican model-complete to the famed initials-of the U.S.'s Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
According to the brief, sharing showers with Harvard men could be argued to be "such influences...
Varsity basketball men start a brief vacation from the court today but will re-convene in Lansing, Michigan, Monday, to prepare for vacation time action...
...paper's legal advisers prepared a brief after ominous silence from the Justice Department left the issue unclear. CRIMSON Editors had wired Attorney General J. Howard McGrath on the legality of the anti-drought program, and still had no reply by press-time...
...CRIMSON's complicity in such after-efforts, the brief cited Montgomery v. US (Wyoming, 1915): "In a prosecution for transporting women in interstate commerce for immoral purposes, a copy of a telegram sent by the accused and found in the files of the receiving office was held permissible" as evidence...