Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Armed with the simplest of plots and three extremely capable actors, Zoltan Korda has transformed Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" into a first-rate motion picture. While the sparsely-worded, continually charged atmosphere of the original story has been preserved, the script-writers have only had to distort the plot a little to squeeze ninety minutes of movie out of thirty pages of tightly-written dialogue. The only place they slipped up was at the end, where long, out-of character explanations take the edge off Hemingway's subtlety...
Divided into fifteen short sections, the tests will consist of mostly multiple choice questions. Unlike the Kuder test, given to Freshmen last term, the new examination will test ability and not interest. Eventually, the tests will become permanent, in order to aid Freshmen in making the proper choice of fields of concentration, Dyer said...
...doctrine means that American foreign policy has become the unconditional opposition to Russian expansion. It means that where American interests do not coincide with the interests of Democracy, American interests will take precedence. United States support of a vicious and corrupt Greek monarchy makes this fact increasingly apparent. In short, the policy of the Truman administration indicates that the extension of Democracy is to play second fiddle to the checking of Communism...
Nomination petitions for Class elections to the Student Council are due at the Council office by 5 o'clock today. Petitions require 25 signatures and should include a short biography and number of terms nominee has remaining in College...
...what extent today's political apathy on important issues will go can have no more definite demonstration than on the two presidential-term constitutional amendment. In this state the legislature is prepared to vote on it after a few short hours of discussion in committee with virtually no open opposition. If Massachusetts puts its approval on the amendment, it will become the fourteenth state to do so in a month after its submission to the states by Congress...