Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minnesota campus was full of New Deal-talk. Humphrey plunged enthusiastically into the midst of it. He gulped down the New Deal ideology, lock, stock & pork-barrel. He became a big wheel in the political science department, a voluble, incessant talker-long on persuasiveness, a little short on logic. A professor once told him: "If God had given you as much brains as he has given you wind, you would be sure to be another Cicero...
Motorists and bus passengers were marooned in stores, juke joints, crossroads hamlets all over the storm area. Like the 343 who spent three days jammed in a tavern at tiny (pop. 4) Rockport, Colo, many went without beds and got short rations as supplies ran out. Fifty-eight stranded people at nearby Lone Tree fared better-drivers of two stalled Safeway trucks obligingly unloaded groceries and distributed them to the hungry...
...rain forced dignified Governor Millard F. Caldwell to cut short a resume of his administration. But it stopped as soon as the new man, handsome, greying, jovial Fuller Warren, stepped up. Warren was wearing a frock coat which hit him below the knees, but nobody minded. Cried he: "This is the first monkey suit I ever had on . . ." During the proceedings, an airplane flew over. Its wings bore the legend...
...that were once homeopathic have been turning away from Hahnemann's teachings, toward orthodoxy and American Medical Association recognition. Last September, Philadelphia's Hahnemann Medical College, once a center of homeopathy, dropped homeopathy as a required course; Manhattan's New York Medical College still requires one short course. Graduates of both schools are M.D.s, in full medical standing...
...DeFore and Janis Paige) reach a high point when they go for a spin in the park in a horseless carriage-a singularly low-voltage form of sparking. Not much else happens to them except that they pair off and get married. One lad goes to jail for a short stretch, while the other becomes an alderman. It seems likely that the jailbird gets the best of the deal...