Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short, quiet David K. Niles, one of the few shrewd politicos left in Washington from Roosevelt days, this situation called for fast action. He had also handled the H.oly Land problem for F.D.R. Niles now urged Politician Truman to do something at once for the Jews. Bob Hannegan thought it was a fine idea. The President decided to act-even at the risk of international repercussions...
...armies may serve as a temporary basis for establishing that security, but that is only a short-term answer to the problem of peace," he said. In this connection he declared that the question always would arise as to how far security measures should go and "where will your army bump into the other fellow...
...jazz at Harvard A haphazard group of instrumentalists it is no doubt they were, with two clarinetists and one clarinet, a cornet, a trombone, a piano man and a suitcase expert. But they were united in their devotion to the principle that jazz sans arrangements, sans rehearsals, and in short sans everything but spirit, lung power, and a smattering of relative pitch is worth an hour or so every week. By the sixth chorus of the initial piece, "Darktown Strutters Ball," it had become apparent to the bystanders that here was an occurrence above and beyond the usual order...
Dean Minot completed his undergraduate work here in 1938, concentrating in physics. After a short session of teaching mathematics at Milton Academy, he entered the Navy, where he trained at the Naval Academy Nautical and Engineering Reserve School, and at the Pre-Radar Naval Training School at Bowdoin College...
There was a short scrimmage session for the "C" eleven yesterday, and the "A" and "B" squads are expected to have contact drills before the Varsity departs for Princeton on Friday morning. Harlow intends to take about fifty players on the trip...