Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Although white collar unions have only organized five to six percent of the workers," he said, "the fact that so much has been gained in a comparatively short time is encouraging...
...Short and Green...
When the radio was invented a short time ago, Harvard rightly viewed it with misgivings and adopted for itself and for undergraduate organizations a stern policy which only now shows signs of decay. Steadfastly the University has refused to allow its varsities of advertise gasoline or its publications to sell out the name of Harvard. And yet, paradoxically enough, the opening wedge of commercialism now comes from the University itself...
John Kieran is short, wiry, grey, bristly and brilliant. Daily in his sport column he reports ball players speaking with the tongues of savants, quotes Latin, law, manages to be humorist, poet and picker of winners. John's radio foray revealed him further as a Shakespeare scholar, an expert on birds and nature, a walking record book on sports, the most dependable know-it-all of Information Pleased omniscient pack...
...Richmond, Va., 103 years ago, a struggling 64-page magazine called the Southern Literary Messenger, then a year old, published a short story called Berenice. It was by an unknown 26-year-old writer named Edgar Allan Poe, who had been recommended to the editor, as "very clever with his pen . . . highly imaginative and a little terrific." Shortly afterwards, at a salary of $10 a week, Poe became editor of the Messenger...