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Word: shortly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...transition of Aldous Huxley's short story, "The Gioconda Smile," into a motion picture, "A Woman's Vengeance," was effected only with a loss in subtle force equal to that suffered in the change of titles. But all of Huxley could not be distilled out fortunately, and that which remains raises the film far above the usual "psychodrama." His writing of the scenario produced dialogue more profound than that, ordinarily heard in film...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Woman's Vengeance | 3/6/1948 | See Source »

Feeling lethargic? Does the sight of a Radcliffe girl in the Yard make your hands turn hot and cold? In short, is spring fever catching up with you? No. At least, not according to Edwin G. Boring, professor of Psychology and Director of the Psychological Laboratory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spring Holds No Corner on Love | 3/5/1948 | See Source »

Meanwhile, a short special meeting of the Student Council voted last night to send $400 from the Service Fund to the Red Cross, $350 to the American Cancer Association, and $250 to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Allocation was determined by a student poll taken last fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Committee Begins Tutorial System Survey | 3/5/1948 | See Source »

LeCorbeilller is not content, however, to let his philosophical speculation on science lie dormant in back issues of the Monthly. Three times a week his short, rebust figure parades up and down in a a Byerly Hall lecture room filled with scientific neophytes enrolled in the General Education offering, Natural Sciences 1. Bent over so far that he appears to be sniffing out his path, he turns frequently to gaze at his flock with what one student called "the friendliest damn eyes I ever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Le Corbeiller: Philosophizing Physicist. . . | 3/3/1948 | See Source »

...Save the Marshall Plan" rally will sweep into Sanders Theater this evening to climax a hasty but determined movement to influence Congressional action on the European Recovery Program. In a remarkably short time, the "Save ERP" campaign has spread to 35 colleges and universities in New England. Local committees have hustled out hundreds of letters, petitions, and telegrams to Congressmen, and in at least 20 of those schools, rallies similar to tonight's are planned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carry The Torch Tonight For ERP | 3/2/1948 | See Source »

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