Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western powers, on their way to the pink palace, were in top fighting form. They could point to a united Western Europe whose people, American observers believed, were now better off than at any time since 1914 (excepting a few short years of peak prosperity). That was perhaps the West's biggest asset. Wrote London's clear-eyed Economist: "If the victory at Berlin proves anything, it is that the way to deal with the Russians is to make stiff terms and to stick to them inflexibly . . . Firmness is now justified up to the hilt...
Poskanzer, Goodman, and Brynteson were nominated for his Treasury, with Poskanzer declining. Goodman won after a short debate...
...Switzer will play first, Henry Young, short, and Ben Akillian, center field. Ralph Robinson has definitely won himself the right field berth. Nat Harris will probably plug up the hole in left field caused by Donelan's pitching assignment...
Intercollegiate yachting calls mainly for two crack sailors from each school, since most regattas consist of a series of short race in "A" and "B" divisions with only one boat from each school in each race. But a strong sailing college must have a well rounded squad, because as many as three regattas may occur on the same day and occasional races in which more than two men can enter are held...
...producers have shifted the emphasis of Ring Lardner's famous short story so that it is not Midge Kelly, but the "boxing game," that comes out the villain. In the original, Kelly knocks down his crippled brother and his mother, and throws a fight in the first two pages. None of this lovable character delineation appears in the movie; instead Midge becomes a man who just can't lose--an animal who refuses to fall down, either by agreement or because of terrific punishment. He wins his last fight after being beaten silly because he gets sore in the fifteenth...