Word: colors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only 500 parts, Sir Robert shrugged: "The result is all those dirty coins you see today. The thin covering of fine silver wears off and leaves a dirty patch on the King's cheek. We have now developed a new alloy to make the coins wear the same color all through...
When he reached Madrid two months ago U. S. Ambassador Claude Gernade Bowers beamingly declared that ''President Roosevelt profoundly admires the Spanish people." Taken to a bullfight, he exclaimed, "I was tremendously impressed. It evoked memories of spectacles in ancient Rome. I have never seen such color and tensity...
...caught off the Cuban coast with rod and line* but neurotic Ernest Hemingway had fought the bucking sea bronco alone and without harness. Technically the only true swordfish is the broadbill. The marlin. of which there are some 15 varieties (black, blue, white, barred) identifiable by the size and color of the dorsal and pectoral fins, has a round, narrow, sharp beak, is more properly called a spearfish. Marlins roam the trop ical Atlantic waters, are also found off the coasts of California, Hawaii, Japan, the Antipodes. The largest fish ever caught with rod & reel was a New Zealand black...
...started raising mice when she was a tiny child but her actual work began in 1908 when she was 29 and had six precious dollars to spend for six imported grey & white spotted Japanese mice. She intended to study their general genetic behavior. But when she crossed them with colored mice which she bought from the late Abby Lathrop, famed mouse fancier of Granby, Mass., and discovered cancer in a progeny. Professor Slye at once began to concentrate on the inheritance of cancer. Her laboratory now is a three-story, greystone house, at the west border of the University...
...Away from the Manchu driblets, the rest of the Seattle Art Institute's collection drops sharply in value. With little money to spend for paintings, Dr. Fuller showed his good sense by filling his galleries not with mediocre pictures but full-sized German color reproductions of famed European masterpieces, valued at from $10 to $25 apiece, most of them printed by the famous commercial litho graph family of Adolf Hitler's best friend, booming, excitable Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl of Munich...