Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National Nursing Council for War Service, she was working harder and longer than ever before in her life. She had a major share in organizing the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, recruiting 179,000 student nurses and mobilizing more than 76,000 professionals for the Army & Navy-in short, assuring the U.S. of its wartime nursing needs...
...symphony he picked is really Gillis' sixth, but because it is so short (14 minutes) Gillis decided to call it Symphony 5½. Its four movements-Perpetual Emotion, Spiritual?, Scherzofrenia, Conclusion!-jump from low-down to hoedown, owe more to Gershwin than to Bach. Gillis gave the third movement its punning title "because it can't quite make up its mind whether to go the Haydn-Mozart route...
...enrollment, and a naive hope that some 250 newly registered students would drop out hinder the purpose of an improved sales plan. While some course instructors completed their book needs as early as last July, others are still making changes and undergraduates must now sweat out three or four short lines instead of one long wait...
Among the papers in the brown envelope at registration, there generally appears one short white pasteboard card from PBH which asks all students to sign up for extracurricular philanthropic work. Office workers at PBH completed compilation of the cards yesterday and a drive is now on to sign up the men who registered interest in social service...
...Acres and Pains" tries hard to laugh its way into the honor spot conceded "Crazy Like a Fox" and "Dawn Ginsberg's Revenge," but falls somewhat short of red-hot. Perelman subjects must be taken in short doses to remain fresh, but, "Acres and Pains" lacks the necessary shift of topic, becoming a well-executed, if occasionally heavy rehash of life on the farm. Composed of a series of magazine articles filled in with new material, the book does not show a continuous level of quality throughout. The older, more familiar chapters emphasize the bawdy wit of Perelman...