Word: grayness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small gray snail clings everywhere...
...NAHUM GRAY Worcester, Mass...
...lank, long-nosed Southern politician, weak from fever, stood on the deck of the cruiser Indianapolis just outside New York Harbor and proudly saluted 81 steel-gray warships in the mightiest display of naval strength ever to pass before a President. By then everybody but pacifists agreed that Claude Augustus Swanson, who had got his job for reasons of political expediency, was one of the best Secretaries of the Navy the U. S. ever...
...Most unusual kudos was awarded in Washington, D. C. by American University's Chancellor Joseph M. M. Gray, who gave an honorary LL.D. to Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, William H. McReynolds, chosen by 40 personnel administrators as No. 1 U. S. civil servant...
...spring. It was still spring late in the afternoon after the sunlight grew even paler and a slightly ribald wind swung in from the sea. The waves piled in on the tide, foamy against the rocks. She walked over the gray-green downs to the bluff. One by one the lobster men putted in toward the harbor in a single snaky line. Later the sim thinned out into a crimson wash in the west. A slight wispy fog made up. As she walked homeward along the shore around the harbor, a moon began to rise. It appeared diffused through...