Word: curts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nominations are open for Man of the Year, whose picture will appear on the cover of TIME, Jan. 6, 1936. Let readers state their choices, give clear, curt, concise reasons.-ED. Razor Research
...editors of TIME, hearty thanks for the articles in the Nov. 18 issue on "To the Fair Isle" and "An Average American." Perhaps if our high-school history texts had been written in the "curt, clear, complete" form of "To the Fair Isle," the American average of "average Americans" would have been raised...
...against the Japanese menace. Mobs in Shanghai stoned Japanese stores and 150,000 Chinese fled the Chinese quarter of Shanghai into the International Settlement, ruled by Occidentals under a U. S. citizen. Secretary General Stirling Fessenden of the Shanghai Municipal Council. What chiefly irritated Japanese last week was the curt announcement of the Occidental police of the International Settlement that the Japanese marine's uncaught murderer seems also to have been wearing a Japanese marine uniform...
...Through the long winter months the thing continued, and when the snow melted and trees began to send forth their fragrant greenery Cupid rasped his horny palms together in grim satisfaction. Hymen's gay preparations filled the balmy air. Now comes the insidious note into the happy melody, a curt note from the girl's father...
...either case the result is the same when faced by the curt statement of the Athletic Committee that it "has declared J. Robert Haley '36 ineligible for further intercollegiate competition." From this decision there can be no appeal unless the supposed violation should be proved false, a circumstance which seems extremely remote in view of the importance of the affair and the consideration officials have been giving it for days past...