Word: fleetingness
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Sir Thomas Beecham, chin-whiskered conductor of the London Philharmonic, who sounds off at the drop of a demiquaver, steamed into the port of Southampton from his latest U.S. junket, and sounded off: "Hollywood is a universal disaster compared to which Hitler, Himmler and Mussolini were trivial and fleeting incidents...
Dr. Niels Bohr, famed Danish scientist who helped develop the bomb, gave ample proof that "the secret" was a fleeting asset. He told the world that current U.S. production of the essential element was 6.6 pounds of uranium 235 per day.
"Other fleeting impressions: the formality of relationship between ranks; inferior administrative organization as compared to ours; singing while drilling; greater emphasis on automatic fire in the infantry; wearing of medals instead of ribbons; absence of signs indicating the particular units stationed in the vicinity, which are very conspicuous with us...
Everything in radio, Fred Allen once said, is as fleeting as a butterfly's cough. One exception he might have made is the work of Norman Corwin, Columbia's boy wonder, whose radio scripts draw down ecstatic fan mail, are frequently rebroadcast, even attain the comparative immortality of...
Policy & Prospect. There had been a few faint peace feelers, but none to which Washington gave even fleeting thought. Unconditional surrender was still the policy, and the fanatic followers of Hirohito, Son of Heaven (see FOREIGN NEWS), as yet showed no signs of breaking.