Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Department sat dry, rigid Sumner Welles, Under Secretary, unbending, unhurried, whose iron purpose is always swathed in the precise delicacies of diplomatic chitchat, perfectly at home in the chill gloom of the State Department, its black waxed furniture, heavy blue drapes...
...police, later snarled to reporters: "I didn't carry any medals down to Police Headquarters." It turned out that Lepke had strolled the streets of New York City for two years, had done some drinking "downtown," disguised only by 20 pounds of fat and a thin black mustache...
What does make darker races darker is a larger proportion of fine, microscopic granules of black melanin scattered throughout the upper layers of their skin. In upper skin layers melanin disintegrates, turns into melanoid, the other pigment discovered in the skin by Drs. Edwards and Duntley. Everybody has some melanin and melanoid in his skin, but blonds have less than brunets, white women less than white men, white races less than dark races...
Anatomists have long held that white skins are tinted by three pigments: melanin, a black chemical; hemoglobin, a reddish substance which colors the blood; oxyhemoglobin, a form of hemoglobin in combination with oxygen. They also believed that Negroes and Orientals are darker than Caucasians partly because of the presence of some special, unknown pigment in their skins...
...Tasmania for the first time, Dr. Millikan will use a new, streamlined cosmic ray counting apparatus. It is a light structure of four shelves, enclosed within an oval framework about three feet long, covered with black cellophane to keep out light. The two upper shelves in the black football each contain two Geiger counters, or ionization tubes which detect the arrival of cosmic ray particles. On the shelves below the counters are eight radio tubes. Connected to the counters and tubes is a light, compact short-wave radio transmitter with an aerial. When the apparatus is attached to a balloon...