Word: curtly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acting Chairman Starnes, banging his gavel, choked: "We don't want this record cluttered up either with praise or condemnation." finally released the Silvershirt leader with the curt statement: "The Committee is through with...
...finest private libraries of German literature, including more than 7,000 volumes from the great periods of the 15th through the 19th centuries, has been received by the University, on loan for a number of years from Dr. Curt von Faber du Faur, of Cambridge, who recently came to this country from Italy...
What a thrillingly "curt" reference to a unique biological phenomenon...
...Ivan the Terrible inside the covers does not alter the fact that many other humans who look up to Stalin will get great aid and comfort from your giving him the cover on millions of copies of TIME, displayed prominently all over our country and other countries. As "clear, curt, concise" and cold as TIME is in giving the news, which I have read for many years from cover to cover, I cannot help but feel that you should display some grain of sympathy for the thousands of humans whose deaths are the direct results of the man you term...
...with a torpedo a battleship "of the Queen Elizabeth class." In this 30,000-31,100-ton class, besides Queen Elizabeth, are Warspite, Valiant, Barham, Malaya, all commissioned between 1913 and 1915, all improved since with antitorpedo "blisters" of heavy armor amidships. From the British Admiralty's curt statement it was evident that the wounded ship was heading for port when attacked; that her "blister" saved her, since only four men were killed and she made port under her own steam...