Word: sprouted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fire of another color fumed up last week in Washington. Ellison DuRant Smith Jr., 26, sprout of bag-eyed, walrusy Senator "Cotton Ed" of South Carolina, is clerk of the Senate Agriculture and Forestry Committee, whose chairman is old Cotton Ed. Young Mr. Smith, who has had the $3,900-a-year clerkship only eleven months, has been going to night classes at the National University Law School. When his draft number came up, he asked for deferment (to Class 2A) on the ground that he has a special employment status: he was indispensable to the Senate's Agriculture...
...experiment with the white magic of the Middle Ages. I will use all the modern means of mystification-loud-speakers, electric lights and wires and mechanisms." By last week Sponsor Crosby had had a grand piano hauled into the middle of the lake, where it was expected shortly to sprout water lilies, and Painter Dali had dunked a manikin near the shore and was trying to ornament her face with a fork...
Many a young man who would like to fly for the U. S. Army or Navy resents the supposed fact that only collegians can sprout wings. Last week the Army Air Corps had the best possible answer to this mistaken resentment: 412 examination papers, turned in by youngsters who had had less than two years in college and who had been allowed to take these tests instead, to get in line for cadetships...
According to the theory of immunity proposed by the great Paul ("Magic Bullet") Ehrlich, when foreign proteins enter the body, they try to enter into harmful chemical union with body cells. The cells sprout invisible, mysterious little things called antibodies which act as chemical grappling hooks. When an invading protein seizes a hook, the cell gets rid of its eneny by loosing the hook. If there are not enough hooks to cope with the invaders, the person falls...
...poems, as indeed there is throughout the issue, and although this lightness occasionally becomes almost sloppy, the reader cannot help but like the young and candid tone of Trend. University literature has long needed such a publication, and Trend's rapidly growing public can only hope that this new sprout among magazines may be spared as the colleges prepare for the all-out war effort...