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...mistake from the beginning. Chile's party, said the Congress, was not in the least like Germany's. True, one of the three Nacista members of the Chamber of Deputies is part German. Admittedly, the party supported storm troops. There was no denying that members occasionally wore greyish-brown shirts and overseas caps. Indeed, they did go about saluting each other with raised arms. Sometimes it is a fact, they drilled. Yes, they once took to the streets to fight the Communists. No good Nacista would deny that he was fanatically nationalistic. There was even a bare possibility...
...manage employment agencies tend to become critical about jobs. Naturally choosy is greyish, gracious little Harvard Law Professor Felix Frankfurter, who ran a one-man, unofficial, unpaid employment agency for legal talent for 25 years before it found its biggest client in the New Deal. In 1932 he turned down an appointment to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. In 1933 he turned down Franklin Roosevelt's offer to make him Solicitor General. Last week, however, Franklin Roosevelt made Felix Frankfurter an offer he could not reject: to ascend to the famed "scholar's seat...
...cattle tick, unengorged, is about 1/10 by 1/20 of an inch. It is light yellowish or light greyish brown. The hatching larvae crawl up grass or weed stems and attach themselves to a passing animal. There they grow to adulthood in about 30 days, living on the blood of the host. They mate on the host, the female drops to the ground, lays her eggs, and dies. Fever induced by the tick kills cattle, stunts them, lowers their milk flow, damages their skins and hides...
...light. . . . The camera was grinding and the ocean was getting darker, but I could not notice any definite shadow on the sea. Then I heard the whistle blown by the ship's carpenter as a sign that totality had begun. Overhead appeared the brilliantly clear, greyish-black disk of the moon and around it the sun's corona. At least seven prominent streamers were apparent, as well as several smaller ones. The longest extended about twice the moon's diameter. Four spots of red solar prominences appeared plainly during the eclipse. The planet Venus, which appeared even...
...cars. . . . The working population of New York has left today another part of its life's energy in the temples of Capital. Some of the people have become weaker; others have grown richer. In the subway are those who have become weaker. The color of their faces is greyish, their hands are hanging down weakly, their eyes are dim. . . . Only their jaws are moving, submissively, evenly, without joy or animation. . . . What are they trying to find in this miserable, degrading chewing? . . . When an infant, exhausted from hunger and crying, is pathetically moving its dull eyes, and there...