Word: shortness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was good news for William Green, bad (but expected) news for John Lewis. For David Dubinsky, short, energetic, good-natured president of I. L. G. W. U., it was a good way of saying where, in his opinion, lay the responsibility for labor's split. Nobody in the labor movement doubted that I. L. G. W. U.'s 250,000 would follow President Dubinsky back into A. F. of L., just as they had followed him out of it into C. I. O. They stayed in line behind him when, last year, C. I. O. set itself...
...results of so short a try-out as the one last night were necessarily un-conclusive, but the new plan will be given further tryouts...
...able to send and receive 13 words per minute on the Morse key, know every detail of the construction of his apparatus, and besides that be absolutely up-to-date on the latest radio legislation. There are many rules that have been established for the control of the various short wave bands and unless a "ham" is careful he runs a good chance of losing his permit to operate...
...embryonic stage, a satisfactory solution is difficult. It is rather too much to hope that sufficiently versatile tutors can be found to shoulder the burden of correlation in History-Government-Economies, much as they would be appreciated. Therefore, the best plan would be for the division to require a short thesis of all its concentrators in the spring of Junior year on any topic which combines their field of concentration with another, whether inside the actual division or not. This freedom is important, frequently government might be combined with sociology or philosophy for example, far better than with economics...
William Gerhardi, a polyglot Englishman who was born in Russia, has written novels, short stories, a play, a critical biography of Chekhov. He is perhaps most widely known for his novel The Polyglots. Last week he added to his list a long (484-page), glittering, malicious, at times staggeringly funny history of the Romanov dynasty. Subtitled Evocation of the Past as a Mirror for the Present, it is a profuse record of peculiarly dizzy people in a peculiarly dizzy part of the world...