Word: curtly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knew even better than the American Legion's pompous John Stelle, who trumpeted a blast of criticism at him, that there were delays in filing claims, that medical records were not on hand, that much of his personnel was incompetent. He shut Stelle up with a curt report outlining shortcomings of which even Stelle was not aware. He doggedly applied himself to his business, building an organization which he hopes can do the job. In his flat Missouri twang, he said briefly: "I'm not worried...
...Lysenko has not caused a revolution but has rather gone back to the prescientific era in genetics. Lysenko's experiments are reported without exact data and his interpretations are deduced from vague, amateurish concepts. . . . Genetics is a progressive science, welcoming expert criticism, but Lysenko's is disappointing. CURT STERN Professor of Experimental Zoology University of Rochester Rochester...
...reporter asked one of them for General Shtykov's first name. He was rebuffed, with a curt: "That is classified information" (i.e., a military secret...
Last week an exhibition of Klee's calculated naivetés opened in London's Tate Gallery. In Manhattan, a new portfolio appeared (The Prints of Paul Klee; Curt Valentin, $15). Its 40 etchings and lithographs proved 40 times over that Klee, no matter how hard he tried, was no child. Some of the pictures had the bright, immediate privacy of peep shows, some were suffused with an insane glee; but all showed a controlled hand whose simplicity was as artful as a Hans Andersen fairy tale...
...Government restrictions" were Britain's curt reply to Pan American's Juan Terry Trippe for cutting his New York-London fare from $572 to $275. The restrictions were ordered by Britain's Civil Air Ministry, headed by thin-faced Lord Winster, who recently drafted the bill to nationalize British Airlines. With those new rates, said Lord Winster's Civil Air Ministry, Pan Am could fly to London only twice a week. If Pan Am raised its fares to at least $375, it could make seven flights a week...