Word: gray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those who crowded up front saw a pudgy man with cheeks like apple dumplings, blue eyes beneath crooked restless eyebrows, the merest foam-flecking of sandy gray hair on his bald pink pate, a long black cigar clenched at a belligerent angle above his bulldog jaw. From the sleeves of his blue sack coat extended long cuffs, half hiding the small hands folded placidly across his middle...
...Despite the fact that a long, hard war has just begun, it is now that we should pay attention to civil liberties, and to democratic socialization, and maintain discussion and open-mindness, for if we don't do it now, when will we ever do it?" the gray-haired Middle-Westerner continued...
...Herbarium was created in 1862, when Doctor Asa Gray, who held the Massachusetts Professorship of Natural History at Harvard, gave his library and his 200,000 plant specimens to the old Botanical Gardens, with the stipulation that a fire-proof building should be constructed to house the valuable collection...
...necessary funds were advanced by William Thayer of Boston, a philanthropist who had endowed Agassiz Zoological Museum, and the Herbarium came into being under the leadership of Doctor Gray, who ambitiously despatched specimen collectors all over the globe, and who himself engaged in careful research work and carried on a detailed correspondence with Darwin and other prominent scientists of the period. At present, the Herbarium is under the direction of Merritt L. Fernald '97. Fisher Professor of Natural History...
...decided, still circling high above the enemy, that end wasn't for him. He knew bombing was dangerous and he didn't mind; he even enjoyed a special sort of thrill he'd never known before the war when one of the gray puffs of the anti-aircraft shells came particularly close. But this way he had a chance. It wasn't suicide. He didn't mind taking big risks; even 99 to 1 like those torpedo flyers. That one possibility of life out of a hundred was something to work for, something to fight for. He didn't think...