Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short non-technical talk will be followed, when the weather permits, by telescopic observations of celestial objects. Exhibits showing the work of the Observatory will be explained by members of the staff...
...year nothing more would be done on the Council's resolution. Governor Hurley has called a special session of the Legislature to deal with the hurricane emergency but no action will be taken at this time as the legislators have agreed among themselves to keep the session short and restrict it to legislation directly concerned with the hurricane and flood. A member of the Cambridge Council said that if did reach the Legislature in January the "Harvard City" resolution would not have a prayer of passing...
Kirkland kicked off to Adams. Here the 'Coasters, with Whitman flinging the ball to Bixby, Lucey, and Lewis, perforated the Deacon secondary, bringing the ball to pay dirt on a short toss to Lewis. The deciding point was made on the identical pass play from a fake place kick formation...
Meanwhile, SEC, pondering ways to regulate private security flotations, was last week told by Vice President Charles W. Kellogg of Virginia Electric & Power that private selling is short-sighted even though it does avoid underwriting costs and the irks of registration. Said he: "The buyers for the large life insurance companies are very canny gentlemen. They know just about what it costs to get an issue registered. They know just about what the spread that the company will pay to an investment banking group to sell their bonds will be. And they insist on getting both these things themselves...
...stories published with The Fifth Column make up an even stronger criticism of the play. These 49 tales include all those published in Hemingway's three volumes of short stories, and several new ones, add up to 495 pages of superb prose, and make the collection one of the biggest literary bargains of the year. Best of the new tales. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, sums up Hemingway's fundamental credo as well as anything he has written. In comparison with such brief and finished works which combine psychological subtlety with adventure, The Fifth Column seems...