Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three Conferees dispersed under cover of an all but newsless fog of military security. But here & there was vouchsafed a glimpse-such as Franklin Roosevelt's afterdeck chats with Near Eastern potentates; here & there a sound, like the short snort from Socialism's old warhorse, George Bernard Shaw. Snorted Shaw: "[The Yalta Conference is] an impudently incredible fairy tale. . . . Will Stalin declare war on Japan as the price of surrender of the other two over Lublin? Not a word about it. Fairy tales, fairy tales, fairy tales. I for one should like to know what really passed...
...From the alleyways of the Livadian Park. . . .' " Here the Tsarina cut her husband short with a stamp of her ghostly foot...
Last week excited Soviet archeologists were studying a burial mound recently found in the Altai mountains near the boundary of Outer Mongolia. The mound showed a vivid glimpse of how the barbaric nomads buried an honored young woman some 2,000 years ago. Through the short summers of the Altai, the frozen tomb had preserved all its contents as if in a giant deepfreeze...
Objections. But more education for more people was only part of the problem. What kind of education should they get? "Too often," said the commission, "a man is 'educated' in that he has acquired competence in some particular occupation, yet falls short of that human wholeness and civic conscience which . . . citizenship requires. . . . The unity of liberal education has been splintered by overspecialization...
Shelved. The Glenn L. Martin Co.'s high-altitude "3-0-3" passenger plane, designed for short hauls, has been shelved. Reason: lack of orders and working capital. The Martin Co. expects to have an operating loss of $36,000,000 this year. Despite tax carry-backs of $20,500,000 and an RFC loan of $26,775,000, the company has just enough working capital on hand to fill Martin's military orders and continue the production of the "2-0-2," a slower, non-pressurized version...