Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alcoholic taking the "conditioned reflex therapy" is first given an injection of emetine, which is, unbeknownst to him, a powerful regurgitant. The conditioning takes place in a small, drab clinic furnished with a kind of throne for the patient and a number of large white enamel pans. On a throne-side table are "all conceivable types of liquor...
Chrysler already has three assembly lines of olive-drab tanks moving through its tank arsenal (soon it hopes to ship a trainload of tanks a day). Guns, shells and motors are at last in mass production. General Motors, once biggest of all automakers, is already producing arms of all kinds at the rate of a billion dollars a year. Packard and Studebaker are making airplane engines; Hudson makes anti-aircraft guns; Nash is at work on engines and propellers...
High point of anotherwise drab evening of basketball for the crowd of 4000 was Stewart's sensational shot as time ran out in the first half. The brilliant sharpshooter's 61 foot set shot was the longest basket ever scored in the annals of Barton Hall...
...carefully painted leaves of his jungle trees he copied from sprigs and grass-blades that he picked up in his walks around Paris. His jungle animals were painted after trips to the Paris zoo. For years he worked away in a drab little studio above a plasterer's shop, taking his paintings very seriously, lavishing the utmost care on each geometrically exact landscape. When he started sending his pictures each year to the Salon des Independants to be hung alongside the works of painters like Redon (TIME, Aug. 25), Seurat and Signac, critics and fellow artists suppressed smiles...
After a successful first year, when Austie Harding captained the Crimson there followed two drab years in which a Harvard team failed to win a single League game. This year's squad was shaping up as a much better aggregation, but how much its development will be retarded by this shift is as yet uncertain...