Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shots of thyroid or pituitary hormones enable a dwarf to fit into a man-sized suit of clothes, a young boy to sing basso profundo. Spectacular as the results of hormone treatment may be, doctors are still in the dark about the exact size of the injection in many unusual cases, have dared to administer only conservative amounts of hormone over long periods of time. Last year Physiologists R. Deanesly and Alan Sterling Parkes of the National Institute for Medical Research at London grew tired of performing innumerable injections in their laboratory, decided that they needed a "laborsaving device." They...
...rain storm in local history. Outside the little white auditorium, like a chambered nautilus, the hurricane howled. But to chamber-music fans, storms are merely a loud noise. When the lights went out, they rigged up light for the musicians from an automobile battery, listened away in the dark...
...clerkish Georges Rouault has lived a mystic, melancholy life. Every day he goes to the little Moreau museum, of which he is curator, near the Gare St. Lazare, often lunches violently with his old friend, Ambroise Vollard, returns to a mysterious home to paint, in brutal black outline, with dark glowing reds and blues like medieval stained glass, figures of clowns and sufferers from his imagined ''legendary countries...
...dark note in an otherwise successful year was the loss of six out of nine championship contests to Yale colleges, leaving the Edward S. Harkness Trophy in the possession of the Elis. Only in Crew, Squash, and Touch Football did the Crimson triumph...
...dank, dark, bar of a small-town hotel somewhere in up-state New York. Here they were, the whole train-load of them, stranded, with wash-outs ahead and bridges, out behind, isolated on a flood-girdled island. He was wet and weary and he thought rather apprehensively of the rising waters all around, but the beer was good and, by God, this was adventure of a sort. Out of another day was this dingy room, with its hideously-hewn, dirty-mirrored bar, its splintery floor, its dirty walls plastered with reward notices of rogues, new ond old. On these...