Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing against giving her enough money to enjoy a meal in her own dining hall. Last week, Manhattan's Chase National Bank, without objection from the U.S. State Department, gave Spain its first hearty handout from the U.S. since war's end: a $25 million short-term loan, for the purchase of fertilizers and electrical equipment. The loan was a gilt-edged risk, backed by Spanish gold reserves deposited in London, which made Chase happy. Spain was happy just to have the ice so firmly broken. Crowed one Spanish negotiator: "If I refuse to do business with...
Stockholm police cut short the Hungarian victory celebration to chip off a little more glory. They nabbed husky, blonde Gizi Farkas, three times world champion Ping-Pongstress. As with her other compatriots, Gizi's excursion this side of the Iron Curtain was an occasion for stocking up on nylons, watches, lighters-all the paraphernalia of the bourgeois West. She was so awe-struck at the sight of Swedish abundance that she had bagged a handsome wool jacket without paying for it. "I've never seen such a beautiful thing before," she admitted. "I just couldn't resist...
...Adam's short, fast team employed the varsity's fluid play system with enough success to stay a few points ahead of frantically pursuing Kirkland. The Gold coasters won, 34-31, in the evening half of yesterday's House basketball at the Indoor Athletic Building...
...Connors, short, stocky 165-pound wrestler from Roxbury Latin, gets second crack at the position left open by Don Louria's graduation when the Crimson makes its third road trip of the season to Brown one week from today...
...terrified and terrifying sense of life. Gregor Samsa, a timid, unsuccessful salesman slaving for his family feels rejected and unwanted. At the end, he hears his sister say of his insect-self, "We must try to get rid of it." The Metamorphosis appears, with 43 other Kafka stories and "short pieces," in The Penal Colony, a collection recently published in the U.S. Like the more famous novels, The Trial and The Castle (TIME, April 28, 1947), all the stories are marked with the surface simplicity of fairy tales, and by Kafka's obsessive torment of spirit...