Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magazine called Etc., which was started in 1938 and lasted for four years. It first appeared with a brilliant purple and green cover, and glossy pages. It described itself as "your grain of salt, your germ of laughter, your dash of wit." It included light fiction, cartoons, and short poems such as "If you have a chassis
...evident by these excerpts, Etc. did not make a feminist attempt to rival any Harvard publications, although as a humor magazine it could be classified with the Lampoon. Nor did it set itself up to "represent Radcliffe" or to "mirror student opinion." In short, it lacked the self-consciousness found in other publications of the College and thus unlike its predecessors did not immediately evoke ridicule...
When he was appointed Bishop of Berlin last year, Doepfner had only seen the city once. Short, muscular, and an enthusiastic mountain climber, he was shocked at first by Berlin's flatness, but he soon found his east (60%)-west (40%) diocese as stimulating as a spur of the Alps. He has battled incessantly against the "youth dedication" ceremonies the Communists have been trying to substitute for Christian confirmation, and against the growing antichurch pressure of the East German regime. Last summer he played host at an all-German Katholikentag, which brought some 150,000 Catholics from both sides...
Birgit Nilsson: Opera Arias (Angel). In her first American release, rising Swedish Soprano Nilsson sings selections from Wagner and Verdi in a big, flashing, vibrant voice long on power and drive, sometimes short on dramatic intensity...
...high speed become foreshortened in the direction of their motion. Particles that are essentially spheres at low speed are thought to turn into thin disks as they closely approach the speed of light. When two of these speeding disks collide broadside on, they pass through each other in so short a time that they cannot exchange much energy. Dr. Schein's balloon-borne plates may confirm or demolish this theory...