Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After one attempt, Zimmerman bucked off right tackle to score. A moment later he tossed a short pass to right-end MacVickar for the conversion...
...that will be support by the people only if they rise above themselves and their special interests, even as the President rose above the ordinary level of political life in presenting the program. He offered a multiplicity of proposals which included: 1) consumer rationing of products in short supply 2) price ceilings on certain basic commodities 3) wage ceilings for the industries that produce such goods 4) strengthened rent controls 5) allocation of scarce commodities 6) regulation of speculative trading on commodity exchanges 7) restoration of consumer credit controls 8) measures to conserve and make the most efficient...
Something for Everybody. The shopgirls and workmen who comprise most of the Mirror's audience get more than politics for their British penny. Says Mister Bart: "There's something for nearly everybody." The somethings rarely include straight news. The accent is on short, spicy stories on crime, tragedy and sex, eye-catching headlines (HE DIED AS THEY DANCED UNDER THE STARS), lively photographs, a caustic daily column by "Cassandra" (William Connor), and comics, ranging from the Mirror's own stripteasing Jane (TIME, Aug. 25) to action-packed Buck Ryan...
...servin' ") ceases to be mild-and well-mannered-only in his irate slashing away at the younger generation (the heroine's smug sons and selfish successor); but the younger generation hits back by refusing to seem convincing. And the older generation, whatever its higher virtues, seems awfully short on verve. So does the production itself, which puts an extra curse on the play...