Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elizabeth herself spoke over the radio to the Empire: "... I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong. But I shall not have the strength to carry out this resolution alone unless you join in it with me; as I now invite you to do. I know that your support will be unfailingly given. God help me to make good my vow. And God bless all of you who are willing to share...
...whom Maine met "had a theory that all violent insanity was connected with the lower colon," and treated it with enemas. And attendants (who call themselves "bughousers") are responsible for at least 90% of the "treatment" given to patients in most mental institutions, says Maine. The institutions are invariably short of doctors and nurses; patients rarely get any psychiatric care...
When the war ended, J. Robert Oppenheimer was worn out. He said that he wished he could go some place and run a lunchroom. For 2½ years he had bossed the 4,500 scientists and technicians of the Los Alamos atom-bomb labs. After that, he thought, short-order cooking would seem like a restful vacation...
...great surprise, the short will of Henry Ford, filed for probate last week, brought about no changes in his empire. Nor was there any indication that the Ford Motor Co. would have to float a public stock issue to pay the enormous inheritance taxes. It looked as if old Henry Ford had taken care of his death as efficiently as he had run his life...
...ordinary standards, Kafka's was a life in which practically nothing happened, a life as short and simple as a single day-and as terrible, not because its vicissitudes were overwhelming, but because, as in most life, they were endurable...