Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came, got a secretarial job in the Attorney-General's office, and Mrs. Brownlee was always asking her to tea. This nobody denied. In fact Mrs. Brown lee still appeared to have last week a certain fondness for Miss MacMillan. Put on the stand the Premier's grey-haired wife testified : "Vivian was very dear to me. Just like a daughter. She was cer tainly one of my family. She was a normal and healthy girl-a ray of sunshine...
...trouble involved Germany's three unofficial armies: the 2,500,000 common S. A. Storm Troops in brown uniforms; the 200,000 S. S. Storm Troops in black uniforms who constitute the picked, super-drilled Nazi Praetorian Guard; and the 200,000 grey-clad Stahlhelm or war veterans organized and led by onetime Soda-water Tycoon Col. Franz Seldte...
General von Schleicher was for years the master intrigant and "Field Grey Eminence" of the German Reichswehr. The Hohenzollerns have always looked to him as their smartest stalking horse for a return of the Monarchy. Not long ago Paris heard rumors that Chancellor Hitler would be ousted by a military coup led by General von Schleicher...
When the device is in operation the patient stands so that the x-rays throw shadows of his bones and viscera upon a fluoroscopic screen. A television scanning disk looks over the grey shadows piece meal, lets them illuminate three photo electric cells. One cell responds only to heavy shadows, another to light shadows, the third to medium greys. In turn one cell activates a red neon tube, another a yellow helium tube, the third a blue mercury tube. Lenses combine those col ors and a second scanning disk synchronized with the first paints a colored x-ray image...
...tree into logs, a sawyer cutting the logs into lumber, a carpenter fashioning the lumber into furniture. Under this symbolic device last week hurried thousands of furniture buyers from big stores and little throughout the land to attend the 21st semi-annual exhibition of the American Furniture Mart. Elderly, grey-thatched Wade McGowin, head buyer of Wanamaker's, went from Manhattan, as did tall, dark-haired Mike Joseph of Gimbel Bros. and Charles S. Shaughnessy of R. H. Macy. From Sterling & Welch in Cleveland went short, heavy-set George Killius, known as one of the keenest buyers...