Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liked to discuss problems and answer questions with short, offhand, decisive statements. But Washington was learning that the statements were not always followed by action...
...short, while Harry Truman was still brisk and cheerful, still enormously popular with the people, by Washington's judgment he had failed since V-J day to exhibit the qualities of bold and imaginative leadership which the U.S. people always hope to get from their Presidents. He had notably failed to resolve either the domestic discord on the labor front or the international discord between the U.S.'s allies...
Atomic power, in short, was new, energized, vitaminized oats for every old hobby...
...there any sure way, short of surgery, to quiet a peptic ulcer? New York University's China-born Dr. Frank Wang Co-Tui called in the press last week to say that there is, and he has it. He has been doing some experiments on hydrolysates, the new concentrated, predigested proteins, now being used abroad to build up war-starved people. He had fed the hydrolysates to several ulcer patients as preparation for operations, and was surprised when the patients began to get well without surgery...
...Twosome. In the race to reconvert, short, balding Nash Russ, president of Taylorcraft Aviation Corp., had delivered his first civilian plane just two weeks after V-J day. Taylorcraft's Alliance, Ohio plant is now turning out 15 a day of its single model, the Twosome ($2,295), hopes to boost production to 50 a day by year's end. By then, Mr. Russ also hopes to be in production of a new model, a four-place, 127-m.p.h. plane. Price...