Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duchess of Kent, beauteous widowed sister-in-law of George VI, was assured transportation in fuel-short Britain, come what may. She bought herself a bicycle (and two more for her son and daughter...
West Point's Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik as yet has no reasonable facsimile of famed Glenn ("Mr. Outside") Davis, though he has a promising star in 22-year-old Bobby Stuart. Says Blaik: "Davis had a long stride and five or six different speeds. Stuart has a short stride and only two or three speeds." But Army, unbeaten in three years, began its fourth season by beating beefy Villanova...
There are 947 students in the biggest class at Berkeley. This sheep-dip style of education encourages short cuts: mimeographed commercial lecture notes (Fybate Notes) sell like Books-of-the-Month on Berkeley's campus. California does its best to break up, and to personalize, the courses. At U.C.L.A., one professor of history props up a seating chart of his 150 students next to his shaving mirror until he commits it to memory. But the university recognizes its limitations. Says popular Chemistry Professor Joel Hildebrand: "The big institution must be content to be a place of opportunity rather than...
...effectiveness" of Globe's stock registration statement. The registration, said SEC in its belated findings, had contained "false and misleading information." Items: Globe had failed to disclose losses of $17,000 and a $200,000 increase in liabilities; it had also understated its need for working capital. In short, SEC should never have approved the statement...
...starting now with half the day gone. He would cut his Monday classes and study all day. There was no doubt but that was the sensible way to do it-with no half measures. Everything was settled, so Vag clamped his eyelids together and settled back for a short snooze...