Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Warning to all undergraduates studying for exams: do not read the latest issue of the sometimes-monthly "Harvard Lampoon." It will break into the sober, solemn atmosphere of studiousness; it will spoil the gloomy mood surrounding faded and illegible lecture notes; in short, it will make you laugh...
...world peace, the Legion to the contrary, as it has never prevented war in Europe's conscription-ridden countries. Though it may give the illusion of bringing national security closer, UMT can do little but make the U. S. and the rest of the world trigger-happy. In the short-run, the ten million veterans preclude any necessity for what is in reality a peace-time draft...
...Short of a GOP presidential convention or a nonagonal track meet, the biggest three-ring spectacle of the moment is now playing at the Boston Garden. With a penchant for extravagance matched only by the verbosity of the publicity men, John Ringling North and assistants have made their bold bid to recoup the loss of the 1944 Hartford fire, and if mere bustle and flourish are any criterion of success, they've hit the tin can squarely with the bottle. Twenty-two Sensational Displays Where Daredeviltry Beggars Description, a Mammoth Menagerie and a Block-Busting Convention of 115 Cavorting Clowns...
...line is long on cash (over $19 million liquid assets) and prestige, short on ships, and uncertain about the future. Before the war it confined itself to the coastal trade (the Hawaiian run was abandoned in 1917). But the war set it to operating War Shipping Administration ships all over the world. Now, with operating costs up 100%, A-H does not see how it can go back to coastal runs at present ICC-fixed rates. It is operating twelve vessels for the Maritime Commission. But this service may stop next July...
...This short, admirable novel about the French Resistance is written in a prose style which suggests that Author Wertenbaker is a refugee from the dictatorship of Ernest Hemingway. But if he ever suffered under that brilliant dictatorship, he is his own master now. He has fashioned an unobstreperous, supple instrument with which he can handle whatever he pleases. With deceptive quietness, he chooses to handle a good deal...