Word: dark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London biologist who tried to learn why birds lay more eggs if kept awake after dark reported last week in the current U. S. issue of Nature that noise and jostling as well as light are sex stimulants. If Professor William Rowan's reasoning can be extended to human conduct it may provide a commentary on jamming in glaring, blaring night clubs, amusement parks, subways and country fairs. It may also explain why the filthy pigeons of Manhattan, London and Paris, and the noisy starlings of Washington are highly prolific...
...DARK MADONNA-Richard Summers- Caxton Printers ($2.50). Well-told, realistic tale of a southwest "Little Mexico," revealing further weakness in such sentimentalized stories as John Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat...
...over one of the world's richest bituminous coal fields seemed about to end. U. M. W. had put 20 organizers in the field on the heels of the Supreme Court's validation of the Wagner Act. And for the first time full light was falling on dark Harlan County as, before the Senate's Civil Liberties Committee, witnesses pieced together a picture of antiunionism at its exceptional worst...
...auction was ordered by Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, tall, dark, muscular grandson of the first Baron Rothschild and heir, who will be 27 years old next autumn. His reason was not penury but a lack of interest in magnificence. A strong-minded, outspoken young man of modern tastes, he played cricket at Harrow and now golfs, but his major interest is biology. He lives with his wife in a small house in Cambridge, where he has no room for ponderous treasures. He has a small but choice collection of Cézannes, Picassos, Renoirs...
Batting honors for Winthrop went to Downs, dependable third baseman, who registered four hits and scored thrice. Dark horse ace of the Puritan squad was Verner E. Kelly '37, who made a spectacular catch of a center field fly, and smacked out a triple on his last trip to the plate...