Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congratulations on an excellent expose ol the fallacies in the Neo-Malthusian school of economists' argument in reference to population and food supply [TIME, Nov. 8] Those chappies are long on theory and dialectic, short on soil science...
...members of his Atomic Energy Commission. Banks also had a session with Oppenheimer, from which he came away reeling to insert the following sentence in his account: "Oppenheimer was up before 8 o'clock on Sunday for an 8:30 breakfast date with Dr. Louis Banks, bewildered, lowbrowed, short-haired representative of TIME...
...pressure on their enemies never relaxed. Price-cutting dry-cleaning establishments were brought into line. This seemed to end an epidemic of mysterious explosions, with which they had been plagued. Laundries formed an employers' association to police their industry and appointed one of Beck's friends, Bill Short, to run it at a fine fee. Taxicab drivers were organized, after they got tired of being rammed by automobiles with steel rails for bumpers...
Otherwise, young Hummon conducted the inauguration far more sedately than the midnight oath-taking 23 months ago, when he was sworn in by the legislature (to replace his late father) on the strength of 675 write-in votes. His tenure then had lasted 63 days, cut short by a decision of the seven-member Georgia Supreme Court that his "inauguration" was illegal. This time, the court was conspicuously absent from the ceremonies. House Speaker Fred Hand, who introduced all notables, sniggered an explanation: "Someone told me that the Supreme Court came in and found that their seats were filled...
Official closing of the Red Feather Drive at Harvard and the Boston area Wednesday night saw contributions fall short of the set goals for both areas. Boston contributors poured $6,125,522 or 88.1% of the $6,950,000 goal into the fund while the College achieved $36,000 or 90% of its $40,000 mark. Figures for the Boston area were announced shortly after the close of the drive by campaign manager Powell M. Cabot...