Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...granted New Zealand $45,000,000 in credits ($25,000,000 to be spent on defense, $20,000,000 on imports of heavy machinery and raw materials) and the Bank of England converted the $85,000,000 loan into an $80,000,000 one consisting of a series of short-term notes maturing from 1941 to 1946. The New Zealand Daniel had also converted the British lions...
...days later Clarence Dykstra, who is far too smart to get into a name-calling contest, replied: "A university is timeless, selfless, and committed to the commands of truth. . . . Individual lives are short. . . . No adversity kills a firmly rooted university...
...They Shall Have Music ended at all is no mean tribute to Producer Goldwyn's pertinacity. Having convinced Heifetz with difficulty that it was his "duty" to make a movie, Goldwyn went to work on an ambitious story about a Jewish musician exiled from Germany, was brought up short when Heifetz refused to do any acting off a concert platform. Result was that Goldwyn had no story ready when Heifetz reported in Hollywood between concert tours last summer. In desperation, when Heifetz refused to wait for his $70,000, Goldwyn had him work it out in four strenuous weeks...
...marshes off Baldwin, Long Island, gathered engineers of Newark's publicity-wise Station WOR, good-natured Curator Clyde Fisher of Manhattan's Hayden Planetarium, newshawks, photographers, announcers standing by to tell all. Before sending their signal, the engineers spent forty-five minutes twirling the knobs of 40 short-wave receivers, trying to catch a signal from Mars, where the highest form of life is generally believed to be some low form of vegetation, possibly resembling moss. Result: a potpourri of short-wave noises, most of them promptly identified...
Half a century ago a short, canny, sandy-haired young farmer named James Edward Rice decided to put his hens to a test. He built a sort of coop which trapped each hen and kept her there until he let her out and scored an egg or a blank. At year's end his flock's batting average was only about 65 eggs a year per hen, about the U. S. average. Into the stewpot went hens who didn't make the laying grade. Up went the batting average of Farmer Rice's flock...