Word: utah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ease. Everybody else waited. Time crawled. At last, desperately, Vice President Wallace called the Senate to order and recognized Senator McKellar, who rose to bring up an appropriations bill. Senator McKellar neatly yielded to Senator Taft. Senator Taft fielded the yield, tossed the ball swiftly to Senator Thomas of Utah. Then the Senate Sergeant at Arms, ex-Senator Wall Doxey of Mississippi, and Assistant Sergeant at Arms William Moseley Miller of the House stepped forward to inform President Barclay that the House was awaiting him. The President and his entourage left the chamber. An audible sigh followed them. Henry Wallace...
...once virtually upside down, is within ten degrees of upside up, but she still squats in the harbor mud. The battleship Arizona went under on an even keel, but her bow is still out of sight, the remnant of her stern only a bit above water. The target ship Utah is still turtle-turned, her big broad bottom hot and bare beneath the sun. Within the three hulks rest the skeletons...
...thick, overall film of oil. The Navy has not yet decided what it will do with the ship when she can plow the waves again. The Arizona is being cut up for scrap. Her turret mechanism, main and secondary batteries will be used elsewhere. Even the old Utah may yet deal a blow for revenge : some of her ammunition has been recovered, and her sister ships may fire it at the infamous...
...Utah ranks first, Louisiana last, in the number of "superior" persons born in the state in proportion to the total population. So concluded Columbia University's famed, retired professor of educational psychology, Edward Lee Thorndike, in the current Scientific Monthly. Using listings in Who's Who, American Men of Science and Leaders in Education as evidence of superiority, he based his calculations on the state populations between...
...England states rank high on Dr. Thorndike's list. So does a block of five Western states-Idaho, Colorado, North and South Dakota, Wyoming (and Utah). But the ten states that are lowest are all Southern...