Word: kansan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ghost Again. The ghost of Prohibition leered out from behind the pillars. Fumed Representative Edward H. Rees, dry-throated Kansan: "While we are asking people to cut down the use of fuel and lighting in their homes, schools and churches, drinking places in Washington and other cities are well heated and well lighted until early morning...
...Oklahoma Aggies are outreached in one respect by University of Kentucky's Wildcats. Kentucky has as coach big, burly Adolph Frederick Rupp, a Kansan who learned his basketball from Phog Allen. Under Rupp's tutelage, Kentucky has won the Southeastern Conference basketball championship six times in ten years, last spring defeated mighty Illinois in the Eastern play-offs for the national collegiate championship...
...There he learned to fly and got a pilot's license. For his administrative work he earned the admiration of Manuel Quezon, who subsequently pinned a D.S.C. of the Philippines on him. But it was when he came back to the U.S. in 1940 that the hard-working Kansan began...
...Gaunt & gainly Gunder Haegg, Sweden's No. 1 foot racer: a 2,000-meter run in 5 min., 16.4 sec.; clipping four-tenths of a second off the accepted world's record set by Kansan Archie San Romani in 1937; at Malmö, Sweden. It was the fourth time in three weeks that Haegg had set a new world's record. He ran 1,500 meters in 3:45.8, a mile in 4:06.2, two miles in 8:47.8. Hailed as another Nurmi, Haegg has been invited to tour the U.S. next winter...
...furnaces. Because their ambition often outweighed the strength and clarity of their convictions, most of these murals were failures. Only a few have come close to striking the common man as embodiments of his ideals. High on the list of successful murals painted during this period are those of Kansan John Steuart Curry...