Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...education is, in short, in grave danger. Little can be done toward removing this danger unless enough ordinary citizens realize its nature and dimensions, and realize also that it is going to cost a good deal of hard tax money, as well as permanent change of attitude, to buy out of it. Because this issue of MARCH OF TIME describes this predicament tersely and forcefully, it can be incalculably useful if enough people see it, take it to heart...
Another of the book's three stories, Cat Up a Tree, is a short and exhilarating sketch of a fire engine's mission on a bright windy morning, "a witches' morning, a morning of little devils and hats popping off, of flurry and fluster and sudden shrill laughter...
...carefully documented record of what the blitzes did to the city, will be published in England next month. Sansom looks like an Oxford oarsman and lives in a decayed house in northwest London where he is now working "only when I feel like it" on a book of short stories about Corsica...
While Hansen was in complete control of the Freshman game, the Jayvees split a pair of contests over the holidays. Wally Turner pitched a neat five-hitter against Nichols Junior College Friday, only to wind up on the short end of a 5 to 4 score as the result of a pair of errors in the ninth inning...
...eighteen matches played by the visiting Crimson on Friday and Saturday, the squad was able to salvage only three, as they came out on the short end of a 6 to 3 score in the Quaker contest, and were swamped by a strong Tiger team...