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Word: shortly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This self-portrait of CRIMSON staff artist Drink A. Bowlfull ocC shows the little man in his usual overworked condition. The cartoonist is so harried, in fact, that he misconstrued yesterday's holiday as a personal armistice and took off for Scollay Square and a short rest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Can You Fill these White Oxfords, Hmm? | 11/12/1947 | See Source »

Eclipses Chaffee elaborated, produce a rapid sunrise-sunset recording on his devices, received from an elevated position. From his sensitive observations he will be able to detect differences in the reflecting power of layers above the atmosphere; particularly the ionosphere, which bounces back short-wave radio frequencies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eclipse Needs Trained Eyes For Visibility | 11/12/1947 | See Source »

...industry reached a peak in both volume and competition. John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company pulled all the steps to squash its competitors and they all combined against Britain's Hudson's Bay Company. Willful trapping destroyed the beaver, glutted the market and prices dropped. In a short time Astor was left holding the field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 11/12/1947 | See Source »

...competence of the rest of the fiction. The author utilizes flashbacks in a most depressing and trite manner, to show a man's supposed thoughts while he is dying of a war wound. Perhaps the last few words will give a clue to the category to which this short story belongs: "But the whirlpool began to suck him down again. It was so comfortable. So easy. Sinking back, fading...fading...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Advocate | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...Tigers showed the local stands once again what a well-drilled, intelligent, compactly balanced eleven looks like. More than that, the game told a short but pungent story about Crimson grid lacks...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: Tiger Rout throws Pall Over Gridiron Prospect | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

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