Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meyer, who served with Harold E. Stassen at the San Francisco Conference, held that the time is growing short in which to prevent another war, and that this can be done only by abolishing the concept of sovereign nations. His arguments paralleled those set forth by the recent Rollins College Conference, which proposed amending the United Nations Charter to create a world government...
Early to Rise. Neither Marcus nor Cynthia is as interesting as their creator. Successively a stagehand and super in St. Louis theaters, then a semi-pro short-stop on Missouri baseball teams, Pastor Perkins went to Drake University, then to California's Berkeley Bible Seminary, became a minister...
Ruhe alone had six agents abroad (he had 20 before the war). They were looking for anything they could get at a reasonable price. Most of all they wanted to buy the okapi, a purplish-brown, short-necked relative of the giraffe, worth $10,000 to $15,000, the reddish, striped, forest antelope, known as the bongo, sometimes priced as high as $20,000. There is only one of each now in this country both in New York's Bronx Zoo. The Indian rhinoceros* and giant panda were in the same diamond and sable class. Less valuable were Siberian...
Infra-red rays are hard to observe; their waves are too long to be seen as light and too short to be heard in radio receivers. But they can be measured as heat on a bolometer-a machine with metal strips whose electrical conductivity is altered by heat rays falling on them...
...getting so that the Broadway critics scarcely had time to duck. Maxwell Anderson had socked them for their treatment of Truckline Café (TIME, March 11). This week Playwright Irwin Shaw, in a preface to the published version of his short-lived Assassin (Random House; $2), socked them harder...