Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conceivable, less Dantesque than the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, it is perhaps the most solemn natural spectacle in the world. First the earth burst open, then a glacier, next an ancient lake hollowed out and smoothed over this vast and verdant chasm. From its flat, pine-needled floor, grey monoliths rise 3,000 ft. around its edges. Bridal Veil Falls trails softly to nothingness from the top of the west rim. In the middle of the valley is Yosemite, which has a comfortable hotel and one of the coldest swimming pools on earth...
Actual Progress made at the World Conference last week was solely in the realm of wheat. The "Big Four" wheat exporting countries (U. S., Canada, Argentina, Australia) had been held up for a fortnight while Australia's dapper, grey-spatted Resident Minister in London. Stanley Melbourne Bruce, badgered his Government by cable at 40? per word to join the others in some sort of wheat acreage reduction pact (TIME, July 3). Last week, after a conference of Australia's State Premiers. Dominion Premier Lyons ("The Man from Tasmania") had good news for Mr. Bruce. Next...
...Banker Harriman, arrested on the charge of having falsified his bank's books, was arraigned in court on a stretcher. In May 1933, Banker Harriman, having escaped from a sanitarium to suburban Long Island, futilely pinked his bosom with a butcher knife. Last week Banker Harriman, wearing a grey suit and a Panama hat, walked into court to stand trial...
...painter's paradise that they were in the days of Turner and Morland. To this end he has become President of the Scapa Society for the Prevention of Disfigurement in Town & Country. Fortnight ago the S. S. P. D. T. C. had its 4Oth anniversary. Stroking his graceful grey mustache. Lord Harewood made his annual report. His father-in-law's ministers had appointed a Select Committee of Sky Writing which decided that aerial advertising should be prohibited in the country and in towns of less than 20.000, permitted elsewhere. Son-in-law Harewood was strongly against...
...pituitary seems to be the most important gland in the body. It is a reddish-grey oval mass the size of a hazel nut, and lies in a bony case at the base of the brain. Apparently the pituitary keeps all the other glands teamed up. (The thyroid keeps them steamed up.) If the pituitary gland does not supply the secretions which the body needs, doctors in some cases can remedy the deficiency by administering manufactured extracts. In case of too much ''secretion, extracts of other glands restrain the overactive pituitary. Sometimes a brain surgeon...