Word: curtly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Navy Department's Bureau of Ordnance, has lectured on philosophy, discovered some 100 new theorems in geometrical conies, become a cuneiform expert, passed through four South American revolutions and has seen ''heavy fighting in the West Indies and China Seas." Last week in a curt, confident article, "Stellar Distances and the Expanding Universe," published in Science, the aging worldling attacked the "fashionable concept" that the universe is getting bigger, labeled such theories "folly," assailed the views of Expansionists Eddington, Lemaitre, Hubble, De Sitter in 1,000 exasperated words...
...TIME wishes to abide by its slogan, "Curt, Clear, Complete" it will refrain from publishing second-hand information of superficial nature culled from unreliable sources...
Never has TIME'S contumely been so curt, clear and concise, never have its prejudices been so transparent as in its report of the Soviet- Uruguay business at Geneva (TIME, Feb. 3, p. 16). . . . You make a point of observing that Litvinoff is a Jew, that he barely got by as a traveling salesman, that he acted as a "fence" for Stalin and "other terrorists" and that he is "prone to shout 'Forged!' " when confronted by an opponent's evidence. What about the Uruguayan Minister, who is as much a party to the incident as Litvinoff...
Your recent comment on the Anti-Saloon League Convention at St. Louis [TIME, Dec. 16] was curt, clear, but incomplete and incorrect...
...Glasoe and numerous others who have not previously spoken at our national conventions. In a way TIME is right in suggesting that new ideas and new faces are necessary. The new ideas developed by the Anti-Saloon League and the new faces appearing in its councils, contrary to your curt report, will be effective in a new advance against alcohol. But, the greatest change will be brought about by the multitude of voters who will get new and correct ideas about the liquor traffic from personal observations with the result that new faces will appear in State and National Capitols...