Word: dark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...derricked over the side of the Coast Guard cutter Antietam last week, his lines fouled at 200 ft. and he was brought back. Next time he got all the way down without difficulty. "Holy smoke," he yelled into his telephone, "I'm on the bottom." It was so dark that he could not see six inches. When he was hoisted back on board, the only thing that bothered him was cold feet...
...zoologist, Helen Dean King, who has been conducting rat breeding experiments since 1909, has every mutation of white or wild gray rat except a yellow rat with dark red eyes, which she expects to obtain this week...
...confident he could preserve indefinitely the body of any notable human being, at a cost of $20,000. (He deprecates the preservation of Enrico Caruso and Nikolai Lenin as "mere embalmings," suspects that the body of Caruso is secretly re-embalmed every year, says "Lenin is turning dark. He won't last...
There are those who say that dark, square-faced Walter Hammond is the greatest all-round cricket player old England ever developed. If Jack Hobbs was the Babe Ruth of cricket, Walter Hammond certainly is the Lou Gehrig. For the past ten years he has scored more than 1,000 runs a season, holds the batting record for Test Matches with 336 runs (not out).* Since 1920 he has been an outstanding professional on the Gloucestershire (county) team. As such he earned about $1,500 a year, entered cricket clubs through the professionals' door, saw his name...
...however awful, in the utter dark...