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Word: briefer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1941-1941
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...tons monthly, some 13% of total current U.S. production. Defense Plant Corp. would finance the new ore-handling and refining equipment ($28,000,000). Phelps Dodge had figured Morenci's vast reserves would take 28-30 years to extract. Now it may have to figure on a briefer future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COPPER: Newest U. S. Mine | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

Fastest performance of the day was turned in by the victorious visitors' Captain Don Donahue who established an accepted 120-yard high hurdle record at 14.5 seconds, one tenth briefer than Gene Record's Harvard run of 1932. Donahue now holds a hurdle sweep having set the Crimson low hurdle mark last spring at 23.6 for the 220 yards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trackmen Beat Eli, in Last Meet; Smash Three Harvard Records | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde Love Music (All-American Youth Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski; Columbia; 6 sides; $3.50). Dr. Stokowski, a great one for tinkering, first fixed up these surging passages for Victor, with the Philadelphia Orchestra. With his youths (Class of 1940) he produces a satisfactory, briefer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: SYMPHONIC, ETC. | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

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