Word: greenish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thirty-six hours after departure, normal weather conditions prevailing: discomfort in the epigastric region, varying with the rise and fall of the ship; anorexia; salivation, with frequent swallowing movements; headache, dizziness; weakness, progressing to faintness; cold perspiration of the skin, and pallor of the face, with the oft-described greenish hue. The facial expression, which is one of great dejection and apathy, faithfully records the internal feelings. Waves of nausea finally get so strong that the desire to vomit is overwhelming, and after that act is consummated great relief is experienced. The vomiting is very often projectile in character...
...curiosity long ago. Charlemagne was said to have had a tablecloth of it; Eskimos used it for lamp-wicks. Mined from veins in the earth, white or gray horn-blende-asbestos may have fibres five or six feet long, but brittle. Serpentine-asbestos has shorter fibres, yellow or greenish, of great tensile strength and elasticity. Canada (near Quebec) is a great source. The rock is quarried, cobbed by hand, dried, crushed, rolled, divided by "fiberizers," graded, woven...
...illustrate the Mariner's recital by grouping themselves on the ship in grotesquely contorted poses, looking uncannily like corpses stagnant in seaweed. Their edifyingly horrific effect is heightened by masks made by James Light in Benda's most blood-curdling manner. The masks, creepily memorable, have a greenish tinge, with dank hair plastered over them...
Zeno. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will be annoyed to learn that ectoplasm is not taken seriously by the producers of this singular melodrama. In the middle of a second act seance various ectoplasmic entities wander about the darkness sicklied o'er with the pale cast of greenish spotlights. It is subsequently explained that the entities are bogus and controlled by wireless from the next door attic...
...chief experiments have been on fire salamanders with black and yellow spots. When taken from their natural habitat to yellow soil, they gradually lost their black color, and their offspring were all yellow. Kammerer also grew eyes in the sightless newt, which requires no eyes because it lives in greenish water depths. These results have been called in question by many biologists who claim that they are not instances of true inheritance, but merely of nutritive or chemical influences on the germ cells, the possibility of which is readily admitted...