Word: greyish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lens & Retina. Their most notable conclusion in this period: the fibrous tissue was not a foreign growth between the lens and the retina (the sensitive screen upon which the lens focuses images), but a swollen, greyish transformation of the retina itself. It occurred when the babies were between two and four months...
Last week Scientist Waksman (Ph.D. University of California) announced a new, promising, greyish-colored antibiotic which he called neomycin. Like streptomycin, it is derived from actinomycetes. a group of tiny organisms that are in a twilight evolutionary zone between molds and bacteria. The first preliminary tests made since it was developed last summer look good; it may, eventually, prove better than streptomycin. Dr. Waksman and Hubert A. Lechevalier, a graduate student who worked with him, reported their discovery in Science...
...third day, a handful of Londoners - stenographers, shopkeepers, even some Foreign Office toffs -collected about the familiar area now cleared for action. Lieut. Mellor and one sergeant walked into a public convenience marked "Ladies" (where the dynamite plungers had been installed). There was a hush, then Annie exploded, and greyish-black smoke shot up into the clear, rain-washed sunlight...
Bevin leads a rather lonely life with his placid, greyish wife Florence, usually stays at a small, homelike flat on the top floor of the Foreign Office. He is rabidly jealous of his privacy and coldly forbidding toward most reporters. Confided one London correspondent last week: "The only way to get him is to call the Foreign Office switchboard and say in a firm voice: 'The flat, please...
Belmont, a greyish, thin-lipped man in his 60s, calls his painting Color-Music Expressionism. "Inherent synesthetic perceptions" (granted, he explains, to only 5% of humanity) account for his seeing colors when he hears musical sounds. He has supplemented his natural gift with a complex mathematical scheme, based on the comparative vibrations of sounds and light rays.* A ray of red, for example, has about 477,000,000,000 vibrations per second. Its tonal equivalent, to Belmont, is the key of C. Similarly, the key of D is orange; E, yellow; F, yellow-green, etc. Thus, a dirge is painted...