Word: curtly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instructions to the Cambridge policemen were brief and to the point. While the squad cars stood in front of the Lampoon building the short wave radio mumbled in curt and ferocious tones from the Central Square Bastille, "If they act up, kick THEM in the pants! That...
...Would not abortion be "curt, clear, complete...
...more WPA laborers eradicate weeds-notably leafy spurge, creeping jenny-from Minnesota farms. Mr. Christgau announced he would be fired by no one but the President, who had hired him. Forced to choose between Victor Christgau and the Farmer-Labor vote in Minnesota, the President wrote a curt note, demanded Administrator Christgau's resignation, gave no reason, not even leafy spurge or creeping jenny...
...President Conant's rejection of all the committee's conclusions except that on academic freedom and his curt refusal to reinstate the men are breathtaking. He takes the reasoned conclusions of men like Professors Ralph Barton Perry, Felix Frankfurter, W. S. Ferguson, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Kenneth B. Murdock, Howard Shapely, and treats them with a whimsical impatience that would scarcely be accorded to a letter to the editor in an undergraduate newspaper...
TIME may be "curt, clear" but in two instances in the April 11 issue it is not complete...