Word: dark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Correspondents assigned to the Coronation were admonished last week that they must wear "formal morning attire or dark lounge suits," must be in their seats at 8:30 a. m. sharp, must not leave their seats before 3 p. m. and "must be as unobtrusive as possible...
...trachea). A bronchus subdivides successively into bronchioles, air ducts (ductuli alveolares), air pockets (atria), lobules. Lobules bulge with many air sacs (acini) which look like clusters of grapes. Walls of the lobules adjoin walls of capillaries in which the pulmonary veins and pulmonary arteries terminate. The pulmonary arteries bring dark blood loaded with carbon dioxide from the body's tissues to the lobules. The lobules treat the blood with fresh oxygen, leaving it pure and crimson...
...Australia's air history. Near them was the charred wreckage of the plane containing the bodies of its two pilots and two other passengers. Farther away lay the corpse of another passenger who had plunged to his death off a cliff while trying to find help in the dark. Travelers Binstead and Proud, after eight days without food, had given up hope of being found alive. They were writing last messages to their relatives when found. What they wanted to know was the score of the fifth and final cricket match between Australia and England for "The Ashes...
When the curtain rises on Wagner's Götterdämmerung (Dusk of the Gods), three Norns are spinning the dark threads of Wotan's fate. During the next four and a half hours Siegfried is speared in the back, his half-divine wife follows him onto the pyre and all Valhalla collapses in flames. Because Götterdämmerung is the longest and most difficult opera in Wagner's Ring, it is sung more rarely than the others. People squeezed into every available inch of standing room one afternoon last week when Manhattan...
...Dark-haired Miss Murphy, the understudy, when questioned about the authors, raved: "Oh, they're the most wonderful guys you ever met. They both graduated from V.M.I. Finklehoffe became a lawyer and Monk an actor; now they're collaborating on another play...