Word: briskness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was another way of looking at the mess of bodies, tears and coal dust up in Springhill, Nova Scotia last week. The casket trade in the Maritime Provinces, which are economically depressed, rose sharply. The coffee-donut market was brisk as newspapermen arrived from the city. (There are no saloons in Nova Scotia.) The telephone company worked overtime to string up extra lines so the press could transmit its wirephoto of Canada living in the early 19th century. That picture was about the only good thing that ever came out of Springhill...
...Large, athletic, exuberant and humorous, he seemed to be on earth for the motion he got out of it," a classmate remarked later. "Big, brisk, and breezy," his impetuous cordiality which would later win him many admirers alienated those whose friendship he sought...
Died. The Right Rev. Karl Morgan Block, 71, brisk, stately Protestant Episcopal Bishop of California; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. Bishop Block, who will be succeeded by his coadjutor, James Albert Pike, formerly dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan, collapsed at an ordination ceremony in Grace Cathedral, murmured to his assistant, "Bishop, will you continue?", died in the sacristy moments later...
...Anthony, before taking the veil, played for three seasons in the Los Angeles Philharmonic, one year in the 20th Century-Fox studio orchestra, and Sister Mark holds a Ph.D. from the Eastman School of Music. Few trios now performing can surpass their exquisitely unified ensemble playing. Tempi they keep brisk and tense. During the recording session, one of the three sisters said crisply: "Let's take it faster. We can't sound like three old women." They...
GOLD FUTURES TRADING is growing brisk for first time in U.S. as some speculators bet that gold price will be boosted from $35 per oz. U.S. traders buy 90-day gold futures from British and Swiss, pay 2% premium. British and Swiss sell short, i.e., borrow gold to sell to U.S. traders, because they figure chances of price rise are dim. Trading volume runs close to $1,000,000 a week...