Word: busyness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Occasionally the trick is to decipher the information after you have it. At one time during the Paris Peace Conference the then U.S. Secretary of State, Jimmy Byrnes, was too busy to talk to Laguerre about an important issue and promised to write out the answer for him during that...
Andrei Vishinsky likes to tell the world that U.S. capitalists are warmongers. A large contingent of clerks in Moscow is kept busy plowing through U.S. publications to supply Vishinsky and other Soviet statesmen with evidence in support of that charge. The other day, Vishinsky fell for his own propaganda.
No one knows yet how he operated so successfully under Boss Bill Veeck, who last year tried to fire Boudreau until the fans stopped him. This season, while Boudreau was busy shaping a winning team, Veeck was filling his ball park (baseball's biggest, with a capacity of $2...
Now, bound its standard to give nothing short of the best tutorial, and obliged by University policy to dispense with Economics 10, the Department is helpless. Honors candidates must get along as best they can with non-credit guidance from a busy faculty. A Department conscientious enough to refuse inadequate...
Second, preparing the annual is a one-shot job, involving little glory and much labor. The task of finding good men to work for it is a perplexing one for the busy Council.