Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week when the battle of Los Angeles ended, M-Day's commander, Major General Frank Maxwell Andrews, sat down with his staff to write a confidential report to the War Department of the conclusions his new game had produced. But before he sat down, the handsome, grey-haired commander assured the press that his new game had proved a point that is standard with every fighting service in all countries. Said M-Day's Andrews: "Six of the nation's nine Air Force groups had to be decimated to increase the other three to war-time...
Shrewdest of all were the advertising directors of United Kingdom Tobacco Co., makers of "Grey's" cigarets, a somewhat swank but inexpensive brand. In 48 hours London newspapers appeared with quarter and half-page advertisements flaunting largely the company's new slogan: "The Fleet is All Lit Up!" And in small type below the explanation: "They're smoking Grey's cigarets." Abashed Commander Woodrooffe explained: "I was so overcome by the occasion that I burst into tears and found I could say no more." To be sure that announcers would not be overcome with emotion...
...workers assigned to the museum by the Government built the barnyard exhibit and are at work on five others which show how different creatures see the world. To a dog all things are grey, because dogs are colorblind. Fish are nearsighted and the refraction of water distorts the feet of a fisherman standing on a bank. The mosaic structure of a fly's eye gives him a multitude of images. A turtle's world is a shifting scene of bright spots because light Attracts its eyes. A huge chameleon will turn the color of the clothes...
Matron. The principal portion (cerebrum) of the brain consists of a left and a right hemisphere. On their surfaces these hemispheres are colored grey, in their interiors white. Textbooks say that thinking takes place in the grey matter, that the white interior matter merely transmits sensations to the grey cortex and carries instructions from it to the voluntary parts of the body...
...loss of large portions of grey and white matter without serious physical impairment has led Dr. Alford to search for a comparatively small "core of intelligence" in the brain. He found it, he told the Association last week, in "a quite small area, lying posteriorly near the base of the brain." In right-handed individuals this core is located in the left half of the brain; in left-handed ones, in the right hemisphere. Said Dr. Alford: "This area is responsible, when injured, for clouding, confusion and dementia. No other part of the brain, when injured, produces similar impairment...