Word: curtness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This extravagant denouement to the Pilsudski revolution (TIME, May 24 et seq.) followed Marshal Pilsudski's refusal of the presidency, to which Parliament elected him (TIME, June 7), and his curt intimation to the astonished Deputies that they had best elect "honest Ignatz Moscicki," heretofore a total political nobody, but an intimate of Pilsudski...
...Miss Ruby LaVerne Wilson, at Washington, Ark., tried to stop some bandits; why Emory Daniel Stine, lineman, waded into an icy stream at York, Pa.; what Repairer Everett C. Nelson did on top of a 45-foot pole near Niagara Falls. But most extraordinary of all was a curt report concerning a certain Mrs. Mary Regina Smith of Fabens...
...York National Guard, he disapproves of emphasis on things military. The other week he said so plainly and publicly, ignoring the fact that he was to be the commencement speaker at the New York Military Academy's graduation exercises. Last week his intended hosts wrote a curt note withdrawing their invitation...
...improvement is certainly due to the efficacy of vaccination.* Yet in 1923 there were 21,233 smallpox cases reported; the next year 43,029 (103% increase); and last year 31,037 (decrease of 28% from 1924; increase of 46% from 1923). The analysis of this smallpox situation is extremely curt: the public has become lethargic to preventive activities, feels too secure in its present ignorance of smallpox ravages, should be completely vaccinated...
...workers are striking for the right to live a decent life. Their strike is specifically the outcome of a ten percent wage out, forced upon their employers by weight of competition. The demands of the workers to return to the old wage were met by curt refusals, on the part of the mill owners. The workers' delegates were summarily discharged. The workers struck and now demand recognition of their union, sanitary working and living conditions, a 44-hour week, and a ten percent increase over the old wage...