Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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H.Y.R.C. President N. William Smith, Jr. '58 said that Senator Knowland plans to give a short talk, followed by a question period...
Concentrating on the pool, Pritchard made such exciting finds of pottery that this year he began to pay premium rates to 100 native diggers, set them to work two shifts a day hauling out debris in baskets made of old auto tires. In short order they had dug past the well's first stage-a broad shaft cut out of limestone 33 ft. deep, faced with a spiral staircase. Then the diggers excavated a narrower tunnel with steps cut in its side to reach a broad water-drawing room 82 ft. below the surface...
Thirty-nine years before the gleam of lanterns from the steeple of Boston's Old North Church warned Paul Revere of approaching redcoats, a short, stocky Anglican divine, clad in near-rags and wasted by dysentery, tottered ashore at Boston Harbor. After convincing one rector that he was indeed a clergyman ("my ship-clothes not being the best credentials"), Charles Wesley, prolific composer (6,500 hymns) and restless younger brother of Methodism's Founder John Wesley, preached a sermon in Christ Church, better known as the Old North Church...
...that was a fact that Britain had yet to prove to the speculators and merchants of the world. The speculators had sold the pound short in the hope of devaluation, or had sold it to buy German marks in the hope that they would be revalued upwards, possibly both steps to be taken at the fund meeting. Merchants had engaged in a game of what Jacobsson called "leads and lags." The leaders (British importers) had sold sterling to buy dollars and other foreign currencies to pay their bills well in advance of due dates, thus save money come devaluation...
Died. Leo ("Lindy") Lindemann, 69, short, hustling founder of Broadway's fabled Lindy's restaurant; of Parkinson's disease; in Manhattan. Berlin-bred son of a linen peddler, Lindy came to the U.S. at 25, worked as bus boy and waiter. In 1921 he unveiled the first Lindy's just south of 50th Street. Soon his menu featuring gefüllte fish, blintzes and super-cheesecake, attracted the famed and ill-famed heroes of Broadway's big-spending '20s, and Lindy's became the prototype of Damon Runyon's "Mindy...