Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Expanding on the lawn in white flannels and a dark blue coat, Franklin Roosevelt declared: "A lovely day. ... A lovely occasion. ... I am very happy...
Born in 1774, slender, brilliantly dark-eyed Elizabeth Ann Bayley, reports Father Feeney, was the most beautiful debutante of Manhattan in her day. One of her distant relatives is Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She was born a Protestant, married a handsome merchant, William Seton, bore him five children. They went to Italy to improve his frail health, instead were taken off their ship at Livorno and quarantined in a lazaretto because yellow fever had broken out before they left Manhattan. Cold, underfed, Elizabeth made no complaint but prayed in their dungeon while in the next room hard-bitten sailors cursed...
...series of very fine, parallel lines are ruled close together. In combination with lenses, such a grating breaks up a beam of mixed light, such as the light from a star, into its component wave lengths-that is, it furnishes, as a prism does, a spectrum of bright and dark lines which identify the fundamental elements of matter. The iridescence of mother-of-pearl is a diffraction effect, caused by numerous tiny grooves in the smooth surface of the shell. The making of diffraction gratings is a high-precision job. It is done with a complicated ruling engine, carrying...
...dark side of Dr. Greenwood's long and heavy labors is that most of Rhine's opponents do not think that the high scores reported are accounted for by a freak of chance, but by something else, such as sensory cues, collusion, clerical mistakes, or simply sloppy experimental procedure. Nevertheless, Duke University, which presumably approves of Dr. Rhine, rewarded Dr. Greenwood for his work by making him an assistant professor of mathematics...
...anti-Machenite: the man who, in 1934, was credited with perfecting the legal devices by which fundamentalist followers of the late Dr. J. Gresham Machen were read out of the Presbyterian Church. As a sudden, random gesture of conciliation toward the Machenites, the nominating committee last week picked a dark horse. The gesture was so random that the dark horse. Rev. Paul Coverly Johnston of Rochester, N. Y., had gone home unaware he was nominated. He telegraphed his withdrawal, whereupon Dr. Pugh won hands down...