Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...salute to the supreme tact and diplomacy of Ernest Bevin who, alone of all the King's Ministers, wears the striped trousers of the Tories and the short coat of the workingman [TIME, Sept...
...that time (June 1940) under 300,000 men. There were officers who looked up at his old-fashioned portrait in the Munitions Building (painted when he was Secretary under Taft), and shook their heads at the ancient's return. Stimson ignored the Senators, soon brought his officers up short...
Reverence was also in short supply: the peeresses' school reported the theft of a silver ear picker used by the Emperor Komei and crested incense burners presented by the Empress Shoken...
...Gabriella to arrive (by limousine), a vendor did a bang-up business in sandwiches and bananas. Then the cloud curtain parted. A brilliant sun laid Rio bare and dazzling, 2,300 ft. below. Madame Lage strode on stage. Beneath the statue of Christ the Redeemer, a priest intoned a short service. In 15 minutes, it was all over...
Here's the situation as it stood at the end of Columbia's short summer season. In this Corner we have the boys kicked into the back room by the KCAC. They say independent collegiate journalism at Columbia has been dealt a death blow by Dean McKnight and his rubber-stamp "undergraduate" body, and they have a lot of allies among Columbia's student leaders...