Word: briefest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Hongkong to New York," alike leave us not only with a desire for more, but with a certain childish resentment against those authors for not telling us what "happened" afterwards. Mr. Millet's "Book Agent" is too incomplete even for an Incident. Something ought to "happen" in the very briefest sketch. While the American book peddler is described with an effective sense of fun, his Irish colleague is not convincing. We wonder if Mr. Millet ever saw an Irish book agent in actual life. Mr. Sheldon's contribution, "The Endless Journey," is in the nature of Episode, and displays happy...
...Harvard letter speaks of sharing Yale's achievements and her hopes. Let me try in briefest fashion to describe those achievements and hopes...