Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bolles is worrying about anything these days, it isn't about filling his Varsity boat when the time comes for the crew to move out on the Charles next spring. For, to be short, he has a whole batful of good material, and his problems consist mostly in finding the right man for the right slot before the first race...
...piped aboard, the President wore a short-sleeved pink shirt, tan slacks and a white sulky cap. He stood on the conning tower with Skipper Casler, a fellow Missourian, while the U-2513 headed for open sea, beyond the southernmost limits of the U.S. Then, as the boat was rigged for diving, Harry Truman went below to the control room. Elevators depressed, the streamlined hull slid gently beneath the blue waters. The depth indicator showed that the President was going deeper than any of his predecessors*-200 feet, 300, 400 and finally 440. The U-boat could have gone deeper...
...Boss Paul Porter wanted to call it the Office for the Cessation of Rationing and Priorities-"OCRAP," for short. He was overruled. But there would be a catch-all agency to clean up the work left undone by the expiring wartime agencies, and its probable name would be the Office of Rents and Priorities. Phonetically, at least. ORP seemed as good a handle...
...deep in eastern British Columbia. At Nelson, B.C., plows were trapped in towering drifts. Some 15,000 residents of the Crow's Nest Pass area in the Rockies were isolated for days when snow drifted 12 ft. deep. Coal mines had to shut down. Towns ran short of coal and some were almost out of food...
...readers, though it guesses-perhaps accurately-that it already reaches all the scandal-lovers in sight. To find 5,000,000 more subscribers, it intends to add more news of politics and world affairs, fields where its coverage is now good but short. Already it has dipped a bashful toe into Conservative politics. Shy, wealthy Philip Gordon Dunn, 41, its Canadian-born chairman and a major shareholder, would probably go Tory all the way if he were not afraid of offending his Socialist readers...