Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...being. It was Owen Brewster's turn. He plunged right in: "It is inconceivable to me that anyone could seriously contemplate that anyone who has been in public life as long as I have-in the State Legislature, as Governor, in the House and Senate-could, on such short acquaintance and in one short meeting, make so bald a proposition as he describes. It sounds a little more like Hollywood than Washington. I can assure you that I never...
...Virginia's Democratic primaries, a Negro came within an ace of being nominated to the state legislature. Lawyer Oliver W. Hill, one of 18 candidates for Richmond's seven lower-house seats, finished eighth with 6,310 votes, just 190 short of nomination. Said the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "We may as well accustom ourselves to the thought that the Negro citizens of the Old Dominion may send one of their number to the General Assembly before many years are past...
...trade. Several possibilities are obvious at once. The sex angle is always a good thing to start with, but that would only make things hotter, and no one would want that, would he? Another sure fire eye-catcher would be, "Hot enough for you?" This, however, is too short. If the ed is to fill the column it must be padded a little here and there, and the beginning is the best place to do it--before the reader has had time to finish his first cup of coffee and get his eyes fully open...
What has come of all the effort is a unique experiment in international education, a school in which students from 16 nations have come together to learn as much as they can about America and American life in six weeks. An outsider visiting the school needs only a short time to discover how unusual it is in its mutual enthusiasm, the close relationship between its faculty and students, and the tremendously effective informality of its educational method...
Charles S. Keevil, Jr., who played number five on the Amherst squad and won the N. E. title last spring, came back from the short end of a set-point, 5 to 3 first set to oust Ashley, 7 to 5 and 6 to 1. Last summer, Ashley was part of the victorious doubles team in the University tournament...