Word: dark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of oscillograms of the brain waves of 44 healthy students. Since the waves change in character according to the physical well-being of the body and the activity of the mind, Travis & Gottlober tried to get records under uniform conditions by having the subjects lie down in a dark room, try to keep their minds blank. Then Travis & Gottlober and two other researchers tried to see if they could tell which of the oscillograms came from the same brains. In Science last week they reported that in a long series of tests, they made 352 correct identifications, 20 errors...
...have come almost entirely from Representative Fish, whose past record makes his charges look like an about face and cheap opportunism. Hamilton has more energy and organizing ability than any other recent chairman. His speeches were forceful, clear, and had the necessary punch to carry a point. Unless some dark horse, with superhuman ability, should make his appearance, the Republicans should be grateful for the aggressive leadership of John Hamilton...
...dark, dank jungles of Borneo will be wilder than ever during the next nine months, and usually placid primates will blink in the unaccustomed glare of publicity, for the first qualified expedition for studying them will leave within a month under the auspices of Harvard, Bart College, and Johns Hopkins University...
...formed to work it, taking stock which he did not know was assessable. Author Coolidge hired Shorty Harris to guide him across the Valley to Death Valley Scotty's ranch. Shorty ran true to tradition by getting lost. They traveled hard all day, made a dry camp after dark, found the next morning that they had slept almost beside the spring they were trying to find. Shorty believed that Death Valley got so hot that gas rose out of the ground. He said the ducks carried canteens when they flew over it. Travel ing by burro, the slowest method...
...natural owner of a tremendous baritone, young Mr. Middleton made it terrifying in the loud passages by blaring through his microphone. Dark, good-looking, 28, Mr. Middleton studied music at Juilliard for four years against the wishes of his father, a member of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. He took a nonsinging role in Roberta for two years, made his baritone debut last summer singing Gilbert & Sullivan in St. Louis and Central City, Colo. To replace Baritone Julius Huehn, he went to Chicago fortnight ago to sing star parts in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Gruenberg...