Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Henderson and Solomon were distressed with the University's action in the dispute. "Harvard is backing the church with its law firm merely for its own purpose," Henderson said. "The University's position is short-sighteded," Solomon claimed...
...juvenile delinquency: In my youth, boys were required to wear short pants. When we reached our teens, we were allowed knickers, and in mid-teens we made the manly fashion world of long pants. Who ever heard of a gang leader or murderer wearing short pants or knickers...
Capp claims to have a deep respect for Harvard--tempered, however, by amusement. Born in New Haven as the son of a Yalie, he first came to Cambridge in 1936 as a student in a summer course in composition and short story writing. After about three weeks, he dropped out, "in order to help the instructor, who seemed in most desperate need of help." At this time, Capp moved from his home on Brattle Street and took up residence in New Hampshire. He returned to Cambridge eight years...
Anatoly Valyozhenich, after expressing a desire to meet John Steinbeck and Ernest Hemingway, revealed his hope of becoming a writer of short-stories...
Hoffman saw no prospect for any large scale violence in the present dispute, at least in continental France. He remarked that the present premier, Pierre Pflimlin, a Christian Democrat, has both "the energy and the short temper" he will need to cope with his present difficulties...