Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sacked Italy to fill the Louvre. "We will have everything that is beautiful in Italy," he decided, "except a small number of objects at Turin and at Naples." He even forced Pope Pius VI to sign a treaty whereby the Louvre acquired (if only for a few short years) a hundred of the Vatican's greatest jewels...
Even a "hit" musical can lose money. Last season's Allegro rolled up an impressive 315 performances but left the Theatre Guild short on an investment of some $300,000. Heaven on Earth is also in the $300,000 class, and still more costly projects lie ahead. Last week, perversely enough, Small Wonder, produced for $24,000 less than its low-budgeted $150,000, was the only new production that seemed to be catching...
...organisms is shaped by their environments. When applied to the evolution of man, said Muller, this doctrine means that "you would have to believe that colonial peoples, peoples who have not reached the development of the rest of the world, were doomed indefinitely to an inferior position." In short, said Muller, it is almost "Nazi genetics...
...short, wiry figure of Frederick N. Goldsmith, 83, was as much a part of Wall Street as the pigeons on the Stock Exchange façade. For 50 years it had known his rumpled Panama hats, battered briefcase and friendly "Hi!" A successful man, he had made as much as $39,000 a year writing his market forecasts. Some 200 steady subscribers paid him up to $25 a month for his predictions...
Today's registration, coupled with that of 1,325 freshmen last Thursday, brings the approximate figure to 5,530--just 65 short of last year's record 5,595 and 400 more than was predicted for this term...