Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...injecting stable rats with adrenalin, which increases blood sugar. Result: all of them became susceptible to fits. Reporting in the Journal of Comparative Psychology, Lacey carefully avoided jumping to one possible conclusion: that some of the psychological maladjustments of human beings may be caused by plain faulty metabolism-in short, that unhealthy bodies cause unhealthy minds...
When overcrowded, short-of-help U.S. mental hospitals first appealed to Selective Service for help, they hoped for a few emergency workers to tide them over the crisis. What they got, from the "conchies," was a sustained, conscientious effort that has lifted mental-hospital standards throughout the country...
...first time since the Papacy's 14th-Century "Babylonian captivity" in France, Italians were in the minority. For the first time, every continent had a cardinal. The next Pope might well be non-Italian-which has not happened since the 1522 conclave chose short-reigned Hadrian VI of Utrecht...
...wardrobe costs about $4,000, from his moire silk skullcap to his red silk socks and red morocco, silver-buckled shoes. Since one complete costume (a cardinal usually has a half-dozen or more) takes up to 30 yards of material, and Italy's weavers are still short of supplies, Gammarelli feared there would not be enough for all the cardinals "unless they ruthlessly cut down their wardrobe." First to place his order was Palermo's Archbishop Ernesto Ruffini, who knocked at the tailor's door the very morning he heard the happy news. Said Gammarelli last...
...first commercial transport which Convair has sold, is still in the design stage, will not be ready for delivery until 1947. It will be a short-haul, 40-passenger plane in the 300-mile-an-hour class. Unusual features: specially designed engine exhaust stacks which will provide jet assistance; passenger entrance near the nose through a door with a built-in ramp. With the 240, American Airlines hopes to make a "good approach" to 3?-a-mile air service...