Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earnest seeking after the solution of the human riddle. Such a spirit if it lived, and it did, in Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Nikolai Gogol ... as recently as the last century cannot have been obliterated by the domination of a material-thinking group within a few short years. As well to imagine that a tin roof can obliterate the sunrise...
...second stage of the training would allow a number of options, which in length and intensity would equal at least six months. The options: 1) another six months' training, after which a trainee would have discharged all his obligations short of war; 2) enlistment in one of the regular services for a minimum of two years; 3) enrollment in one of the service academies; 4) enrollment in the National Guard or the Organized Reserve with 48 evenings a year of armory drill and two weeks in summer camp, for three years; 5) enrollment in college R.O.T.C.s...
...Bystanders," a short story by James McGovern, is a carefully underwritten treatment of the Negro Problem. Where McGovern succeeds, Stanley Geist, in Part Two of "Lichfield, Pacific Style," fails. McGovern's simple story of injustice and violence is handled without fanfare. Geist's tedious account of Army prison conditions in the South Pacific vacillates between reportorial observation and personal history--a report done in the spirit, if not in the manner of the "New Yorker...
Objectively-graded short-answer examinations also came in for a blast by Stern, who said that they "too often call merely for a spewing forth of material from the lectures and reading...
Bearing Down. From April 15 to May 15, the short interest on the New York Stock Exchange jumped about 30% to a total of 1,314,391 shares. It is now the highest since December 1945 and the rise was the sharpest since 1934. Despite this bearish view of the future, the New York Stock Exchange rallied from the year's low. At week's end the Dow-Jones industrial averages were up over three points...