Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blacks & Whites Prefer Blue. Psychology Professor Thomas Russell Garth of the University of Denver reported in a book* published last week that of all colors, whites and Negroes like blue best, green and orange, respectively, next best. Favorite color of Indians, Filipinos, Japanese and Mexicans is red; next blue, violet or green. Least popular in all groups is white. Conclusion: "Color preference in a race is positively influenced by racial tradition and custom...
Twice the doughty Joffre rallied. To the amazement of physicians, a flush of color mounted to the soldier's chalky cheeks. He even took a little food and mineral water, and replied to questions with an apparently understanding "Oui." But the few who were allowed to visit him refused to be buoyed by hope. They could but quote the doctors: "The Marshal is still fighting. His resistance is astonishing...
...four stages from Orbetello, near Rome. Now mechanics swarmed over the ships-great twin-hulled craft, each with two 500-h. p. Fiat engines-preparing twelve of them for a single flight of 1,860 mi. to Natal, Brazil. In formation of four triads, each designated by a wing-color (red, black, green, white) and each plane manned by a crew of four, the fleet was to take off with the full moon of New Year week. From Natal they may fly on to Bahia and Rio de Janeiro. The journey from Orbetello to Bolama consumed one week...
...elected State head of the American Legion. Thus both he and Republican Frank ("Chief") Haucke, another onetime State Legion head, gained local prominence. Gubernatorial Candi date Woodring defeated Candidate Haucke Nov. 4 by the close margin of 319 votes, following a campaign in which most of the color was interpolated by the Independent Candidate, Dr. John Richard ("Goat-Gland") Brinkley (TIME...
Addison's disease, rare and usually fatal malady which ordinarily colors its victims anywhere from a light yellow to a deep brown and even black, has been treated successfully. Announcement of that important fact came last week from the Long Island Biological Association at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., where Professor Wilbur Willis Swingle of Princeton and Joseph John Pfiffner developed the medicine. It is a purified extract, a hormone, of the suprarenal glands.* Johns Hopkins and the Mayo Clinic have used the extract on some 30 cases of Addison's disease. One case reacted favorably...