Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cramped into tiny booths along the walls, interpreters translated his harsh Russian into four other languages. Their translations went out by short wave to small portable receiving sets (with earphones attached) which are issued to all delegates and visitors. They let the listener move about, untethered by wires. Vishinsky digressed to the Marshall Plan: ". . . The U.S. [wants] guarantees [like that] used by Mr. Shylock, when he demanded a pound of flesh...
...proved his judgment and her own competence. She saw the ceremony, hurried back to Fleet Street in a Standard car. Cool and unhurried as a good rewrite-man, she filled short sheets of copy paper in longhand which were snatched away for typing and setting. In a few sentences, she caught the mood of a memorable day: "It might seem folly to have a royal wedding in winter, but it was wise enough. The people are tired of sadness, they need a party; they are tired of hate, they need to think of love; they are tired of evil, they...
That evening, company foremen were guests at a champagne-confetti blowout at Boston's Copley-Plaza Hotel, heard a short pep talk: "You've done a damn good job, guys," said President Joseph P. Spang Jr., "but in the same breath I want to say we're still behind on our orders. We want to get that old man's face in every store in the world...
Three hundred and seven years ago last October 7 the General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony turned the Boston-Charleston Ferry over to Harvard. This was the first grant to an endowment fund which is worth just short of $200 millions today. Although most of the 1800 separate funds that make up the endowment are larger and more significant than the two which stem from the 1640 ferry concession, none are more novel, and the growth of the first concession to its current value of $18,000 stands as a miniature example of the rabbit-like multiplication of Harvard...
...first one, filmed by ski expert Dick Dorrance, is called "Olympic Preview" and features downhill and slalom shots of the American ski team tryouts held last winter. "Lets Go Skiing," the second short, is a personalized version of pleasure skiing and racing in the West...