Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason the U. S. Senate last week curbed its 96 tongues, limiting each to 15 minutes exercise until a new farm bill should be passed. Passed in a few hasty weeks of 1933's emergency, the original AAA had imperfections which a majority of the Supreme Court was quick to spot last month. AAA's substitute was riding through Congress last week under circumstances not much better. Pressed by sprouting cotton seed and impatient farm leaders, Senators had no more time to consider than they had in 1933. Pressed by the political necessity of adopting a bill that...
...called "europa," but has had some of it printed and spends it successfully in Le Puy, where shopkeeper constituents have faith in Felix. In some respects a highly skilled and intellectual man of "Brain Trust" calibre, Deputy Archer has to his credit the invention of several models of quick-firing French cannon esteemed by the Army...
...Tokyo reporters: " The Red Army of the Soviet Union is 1,300,000 strong and the Soviet Far Eastern Army amounts to 250,000- equal to the entire standing Army of Japan." Secretary v. Emperor. A bully, if there is a chance of his being licked, can be astonishingly quick in piping down. Last week the Japanese Foreign Office, sensing that this time Joseph Stalin is really angry, suddenly flashed off to Moscow a wheedling offer. They proposed that a commission to settle frontier incidents be set up with Russia having twice as many seats as either Japan or Manchukuo...
...three scholars of different countries dug up the Mendelian laws almost simultaneously, and the modern science of heredity got under way with a bang. Thomas Hunt Morgan made the tough, quick-breeding fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, the most famed insect in the scientific world, correlated hundreds of Mendelian characters with invisible transmitting agents called genes, strung out along the germ-cell chromosomes. It became apparent that Mendel's peas were priceless landmarks in the history of biological science...
...Mildred Harris & Harold Goldman; MacKenna, Mielziner & Mayer, Producers). Title role in this conjugal rough-&-tumble is played by Peggy Conklin, the extremely pretty brunette who was bundled into dramatic fame in The Pursuit of Happiness (TIME, Oct. 23, 1933). Last year she was the pert daughter of the Arizona quick-lunch proprietor in The Petrified Forest. In Co-Respondent Unknown Actress Conklin again appears as a gamine whose innocence about sex is equaled only by her curiosity...