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...quick action was solid evidence that the mood of Congress has changed since President Eisenhower vetoed the first farm bill last month. Prodded by mail from home, Congressmen have been seeking the quickest approach to a bill the President will sign. The Senate bill, which has the qualified approval of Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, contains many of the provisions the President had hoped for when his veto sent Congress back for another try. However, it fails him on some points, e.g., although it would create a $1.2 billion soil bank, it would not provide any payments this year...
...obligations on every side. Many of the obligations are long-term ones, with the result that the Museum's ability to meet them can be measured only imperfectly at best. Coolidge expresses his own working philosophy of the situation: "when understaffed, you do the things that produce the quickest results...
...chunk of ice and batted it down with the heel of his hand. 'By Dad!' he breathed, a little god invoking himself . . . Mrs. Mathers left the room, and returned a moment later whispering that she believed in flushing the toilet before she made coffee. That was the quickest way to bring fresh water into the house...
Morrison pinned Ed Fisher of Rutgers in 1:33 of the first round for the quickest time of the tournament. In the quarter finals and semi-finals Morrison went into an overtime and even then the matches had to be decided by the referee's decision. Bill Oberly of Penn State downed Morrison 5 to 3 in the finals with all Lehigh cheering for Morrison...
...does the U.S. strengthen its Western alliances by having the tallest basketball players or the quickest middle distance runners. "A creditable showing" consists of more than victories, and a supreme effort to win at any cost may often lead to neglect of standards of sportsmanship which more certainly than gold medals win respect from other nations...