Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan public hall one day in 1943, 400 delegates of the Communist Party's Young Communist League met and announced they were dissolving their organization. Actually, they were only changing their name as part of Communist Leader Earl Browder's (and Moscow's) short-lived project of cozying up to capitalistic democracy...
Died. Bailey Willis, 91, Stanford University's longtime (since 1915) professor of geology, explorer and world-famed seismologist who was credited with predicting Santa Barbara's disastrous earthquake of 1925; after short illness; in Palo Alto, Calif...
Quartet. An entertaining package of four unrelated Somerset Maugham short stories (TIME...
...English foreground and the lives she knew as they settled into war. The first result was a long book, Bowen's Court, on the history of her family and the estate in Cork that they had owned since Cromwell's day. The second was a book of short stories. The third is The Heat...
Coach Jimmy Reed's wrestlers were more adept, more deliberate, and generally in better condition than their opponents. They were, in short, better wrestlers. For example, Dave Poor, who best Dave Smith at 128 pounds, has lost only once in four years of dual meet competition...