Word: baldly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bald, flute-playing Artist Rockwell Kent last week rushed excitedly into the Weyhe Gallery, his Manhattan dealers, with two rolls of scraped sealskin and a story: he had discovered the greatest of Eskimo artists, he had two examples of his work to prove...
...Bishop William Lawrence descended from the pulpit. William Appleton Lawrence, 47, who had stood up quickly when addressed as "My son," advanced to the altar. Bishop Lawrence and his six colleagues, including President Bishop James De Wolf Perry, laid their hands upon the bald pate of the man whom the Episcopalians of Western Massachusetts had elected their Bishop (TIME...
Cold & Heredity. Not only X-rays but extremes of temperature produce such mutations as abnormal eyes, queer-shaped wings and bald thoraxes in Drosophila melanogaster, the little fruit fly made famous by the genetic researches of Thomas Hunt Morgan. Many a geneticist suspects that the impacts of cosmic rays also start mutations working in the germ plasm. When the National Geographic Society's balloon Explorer II made its record-breaking flight into the upper air last year, Dr. Victor Jollos of the University of Wisconsin sent jars of fruit flies up with it, outside the gondola. The insects died...
Upon the Supreme bench of the U. S. sits no man more learned in the law than the senior Associate Justice, bald Willis Van Devanter. Though liberal colleagues may disagree violently with his conservative opinions, they listen with profound respect in conference when, out of the experience of his full quarter-century on the Court, he expounds history, procedure, precedents. As elementary to him as the formula for water is to a master chemist, is the judicial principle that ignorance of the law is no excuse...
...bachelors owned, how much they controlled. His star witness was George Alexander Ball, whose name is a household word to millions of farmers' wives who put up their preserves in his "Ball Perfect Mason" jars. Mr. Ball, a pale, grey-mustached septuagenarian with a frosty fringe around his bald cranium, told how he and Cleveland's George Ashley Tomlinson, to whom the late O. P. Van Sweringen appealed for aid in 1935, formed Midamerica Corp., put up $3,121,000 to buy at auction from J. P. Morgan & Co. collateral that had once secured...