Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many positions are open on all the boards, and this fall's competition will be unusually short. As Cambridge's only daily, The CRIMSON's coverage of news and sports gives New Board candidates opportunities for interviews, writing and reporting. Similarly, the Photo Board welcomes all cameramen interested in free equipment, valuable training and publication...
...Covington sent Elston Howard deep into left with the wind helping the ball but the Yankee outfielder caught his long drive. Del Crandall, a Duren strikeout victim on three pitches in the eighth, bounded a high hopper to short center for a single...
...group then dispersed for a short while, most departing for whirlwind trips through the continent. The members met again at Wimbledon on July 4th, where they were given free tickets to the last two days of the tournament. They then attended the Wimbledon Ball, as guests of the All-England Club, which owns Wimbledon. The Secretary of the Club, Colonel MaCauley, made the arrangements for the entire trip in his capacity as a member of the Prentice Cup Committee...
...investor who holds 100 shares of a stock at a profit but does not want to take the profit for tax or other reasons sells 100 shares short. When he covers the short sale by delivering the stock in which he has a profit, he receives whatever the price was at the time of the short sale, no matter how low the price may meanwhile have dropped...
...wide-screen girls, cultists, simpletons and satyrs has been seen before in Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One and in the misanthropic novels of Nathanael West. Southern hits more gently than Waugh or West, and is not so accomplished a writer. Though he is strikingly inventive in short scenes, he seems unable to plot beyond a dozen pages. Like the old two-reelers, Flash and Filigree lacks weight and discipline, but it also has an unfailing sense of the ridiculous, heightened by deadpan delivery...