Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retired professor at the University of Illinois, rose to defend his priority on No. 61. In 1926, he insisted, he had found the element by observing its spectrum. Other experts testified that he must have made a mistake. Chief count against Dr. Hopkins' claim: Element 61 is so short-lived that it could hardly have existed in nature...
...with livestock prices. One thing that had finally frightened the speculator into panicky selling was a decision by the Federal Government to cut purchases of grains for November export by some 50 million bu., 42% below the July-October level. And traders who had expected frost to nip the short corn crop, were upset by the Department of Agriculture's announcement that half the corn crop had matured and was safe from the frost...
...decided to continue its wartime substitution of rayon tire cord for cotton, will probably take about 26% of the total U.S. production, v. 2% in 1940. Although U.S. productive capacity had more than doubled since the war began, the 900 million Ibs. being spun this year was still far short of demand...
...range of Joseph Conrad's material, as of his splendid glooms and lucidities in storytelling, could scarcely be better shown than in this collection of eleven long and short tales. They include, besides the familiar sea stories, tales of Poland, England and Asia. Among them are the classic Youth, Amy Foster, Typhoon, The Nigger of the Narcissus, Heart of Darkness. The editor, one of the best of U.S. literary critics, has shown good judgment in not chopping Conrad's longer masterpieces into incomprehensible fragments just to get them inside an anthology. He has also made room...
...long skirts, short girls look lost and tall girls looks like beanpoles," said Dierdre O'Brien, Radcliffe...