Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...copper plate" hand which contains the same elements as the writing they were taught at school 20 years and more ago. This subconscious clinging to the penmanship carefully learned in school so long ago is often an indication of lack of originality, inflexibility, lack of self-confidence-in short, a standstill in mental development...
...House, Republican bosses wanted a $6 billion bite and no buts. As their proposal hit the floor with a take-it-or-leave-it rule barring amendments. Appropriations Committee Chairman John Tabor whipped the Republicans into line. He got fervent support from Missouri's Dewey Short, who opened an attack on New Deal spending by disdaining the microphone and bawling: "I never did like to speak through a tin horn. It's like kissing a beautiful girl through a screen door...
...nightly one-hour short-wave broadcast, ambitiously titled the "voice of the United States of America," a staff of 15 Russian-speaking Americans would henceforth give Russia what Secretary of State Marshall called the "pure and unadulterated" truth. In the first broadcast last week (9 p.m. Moscow time), the Voice of America included 20 minutes of straight news. Then followed a twelve-minute lecture on the U.S. form of government, which said, among other things, that the U.S. had lost its fear of the "socalled despotism of the central government...
...used a galaxy of substitutes to hold off a fast-finishing Kirkland five and ring up a 35 to 31 victory on the Indoor Athletic Building courts. The Deacons, playing without two regular starters, staged a last-minute drive led by Bernie Edison's three quick baskets but fell short of the mark as the last quarter...
...also opened the campaign for contributions for the first issue, appealing to graduate and Radcliffe students--as well as undergraduates--for short stories, poems, criticisms, and especially articles involving "special knowledge." He cited veterans as a good source of this "special knowledge...