Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seamen trained in whaling simply do not exist to man the British whaling fleet today, it could perfectly well be sent to Southern waters with British crews who could learn to hunt whales as they went along. In case the British whaling ships actually are sent south now with green crews, Norwegian whalers vowed last week that they will send their ships and experienced crews speeding ahead to the Antarctic and start a free-for-all destruction of the whale...
...Riley Spitler of Eton, Ohio declared his belief that light of certain colors, relaxing or stimulating the optic nerves, may affect the entire nervous system. He recommended red for increasing blood pressure and curing dizziness, yellowish green or bluish green for stomach disorders, blue or violet for headaches...
...polo shirt, a white rag bound around his brow. At a fifth desk, a special one with built-in knee pads to protect his shaking knees, sat sleek, handsome, 33-year-old Albert Tangora, instructor in Manhattan's Radio City School of Business Practice & Speech. He wore a green eyeshade and his manicured fingers raced to keep the title he won year ago with 128 words a minute...
...garment, which could be red, green, or blue as the student desired, and which resembles the modern smock, was the student costume at the time of the Harvard bicentennial exercises in 1836. It is being shown as part of a Tercentenary exhibit of rare early American books and manuscripts which will continue at the Harvard library throughout the summer...
...real value of Middle West stock remained a blank mystery. Some subsidiaries were earning, some losing money. The job of drawing up a consolidated financial statement was described by its officers as "nearly impossible." President Green had estimated that net income for 1936 would be more than $1,000,000 or better than 30? a share on the common stock, the new company's sole capitalization. The temptation to make and stake a guess on Middle West's real value last week proved too much for two Chicago brokers...