Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sudden flurry of activity, the Council announced yesterday the appointment of a permanent Committee on the General Education Report, under the chairmanship of Levin H. Campbell 3rd '48 of Short Hills, New Jersey, and Adams House. Campbell has also been appointed to a place on the Student Council...
...Short Retort. Management's delegates could hardly believe their ears. Said N.A.M. President Ira Mosher: "I would give a year's budget if John had made that speech publicly." Said Monsanto Chemical's William M. Rand: "I've had the wrong slant on John Lewis...
...vigor. . . . It is true, as I said long since, that it is only a 'beachhead in the battle for peace. . . .' But ... it is a vital beachhead. ... Its machinery and powers are limited. . . . But it is flexible. It can grow. ... Do not sell the United Nations Organization short. Do not undermine what you have in an academic discussion of what you wish...
Russia's music is systematically organized-from the mightiest flames of Russian creative inspiration down to the lowliest tuba spit valve. A Soviet bureau called Glavnoe Musicalno Pravelenya (Glavmus for short) spends over 6,000,000 rubles a year ($1,200,000) keeping Soviet composers well-fed and commissioning them to write operas and symphnies. It even runs a "composers' country house" at Ivanovo, about 100 kilometers from Moscow, where all good Russian composers go in the summertime. One of Russia's top composers, Armenian-born Aran Khachaturian, calls it "an institution for the production of masterpieces...
Twelve years ago the nation's race tracks cracked down on the widespread practice of "hopping" horses; into limbo went the old standbys, heroin and cocaine, which mandatory saliva and urine tests showed up crystal clear. Inventive horsemen-and few are short on imagination-promptly began a painstaking search for a magic hop that would leave no telltale evidence. Stories and jokes about new nasal sprays and rectally-administered stimulants soon became standard race track shop talk...