Word: curtness
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...letter sent to protesting students; curt, concise Timeditors explained the misstatement by quoting an Associated Press report of the move. The Lucesleuths felt the full fury of Cantabridgian scorn, complaining that their mail has swollen with exclamations of the unfortunate absence of any such luxury...
Lacking food, the Danes still had a king. On his 72nd birthday, Sept. 26, Christian, the elder brother of Norway's Haakon, sent a curt answer to Hitler's flowery message of good will. The answer: "Thank you, Christian, Rex." This week Christian lay injured by a fall from his horse* and the Nazis had applied new pressures to make Denmark a "model province" of the Third Reich...
Enter Labor. Christopher took his plan to stocky, clear-thinking Curt Murdock, president of Packard Local 190 (U.A.W.-C.I.O.), a unioneer who realizes that the only way to win the war is with more and faster production. In a two-month series of confabs, the two men pounded the original idea into the "Work to Win" program. Chief program points: 1) a speedup of machines rather than men; 2) individual recognition for work well done; 3) whoop...
...received threatening letters from the strong-arm boys, but he had not even gotten credit for the hour. It was still a mystery how they found out; nobody had seen him. He couldn't take a legitimate cut, either; he had already taken five cuts, and a curt card from Holyoke Street had informed him that the sixth would be his connections with the University...
...Navy's curt message said only that Nason Billings had died at sea, on one of those seagoing tugs that defy subs and storms to do rescue and salvage work. In a weather-beaten old house in a little Maine fishing village last week an oak-hearted old man sat down and scribbled a stout reply...