Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offspring, which is hatched from an egg, has the head of a hare, with long ears and brown eyes. It has the body of a chicken, and a hare's tail. It walks on two legs, like a chicken, and, in place of wings or forelegs, it has short stubs that swing back and forth as the fur-fowl walks...
...together. It used to take 13 days, by the quickest transportation, to get from Rio to Manaus near the mighty Amazon. Now, with stops along the way, flying boats and land planes cover the 2,000 miles in two days. Planes cut the distance to doctors in a country short of skilled specialists. A hundred lively aero-clubs, sponsored by the Government, have brought planes to many parts of Brazil before the motorcar; some 600 airfields have been built...
Last week the United Nations' press section made a modest request: would the papers please take the O out of UNO, which was never christened an "Organization?" Manhattan dailies unanimously agreed to make a short headline word even shorter, although the sensitive Sun protested that UN is "merely a negative grunt . . . not half so pleasing to ear or tongue." Even the UNhospitable Daily News, which wants the outfit to get "com pletely out of the United States" (to northwest Mexico), went along. The press seemed willing to give U.N., at least on little things, every break...
When Jascha Heifetz, fiddle in hand, moved to Decca Records, musicians guessed that Decca, the largest manufacturers of Tin Pan Alley records, pined to go highbrow. But last week it looked as if Decca had given Longhair Heifetz a short haircut...
Other problems add to the dynamics of the College scene: short-range problems of readjustment and revitalization, long-range one of progress along the path of liberal education. A student body awake to the conflict of forces, jealous of the abandonment of the old, and wary of embracing the new will not find education neglected in the course of the fight--the fight is education...