Word: greys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through the wards of the General Hospital at Vienna, a tall, grey doctor proceeds. His shoulders are stooped from age and work. Behind him follow 20 to 30 other doctors. They have come from all countries to attend his clinic. Many are from the U. S., taking postgraduate work, for, although the U. S. has better laboratories than any abroad, Vienna maintains its prestige for clinical research...
...Lita Grey Chaplin, divorced wife of one of President Woodrow Wilson's favorite comedians, to be presented. President Coolidge told her he hoped she was enjoying Washington. Her mother, Mrs. Lillian Grey, was with her. They were introduced by William Spry, English-born Mormon, onetime (1909-13, 13-17) Governor of Utah, now (since 1921) Commissioner of the General Land Office. When picture agencies distributed photographs of this party of callers, one caption read: "William Spry is forced to live up to his name...
...College for Young Men" at Nashville, Tenn., who reached wealth, fame and a place in the Harding cabinet via law, mining, cattle dealing, lumber trading and being Senator from New Mexico, still carried his broad-brimmed black hat, still chewed unlighted cigars, but bore his 66 years tiredly. His grey mustache drooped, his grey suit hung loosely, he slouched silent in his chair...
...small grey man, with eyes as grey as new wrought awls, backed against a handrail of the Italian liner Conte Rosso when she dropped anchor at quarantine in New York Harbor last week* and permitted reporters to tease noncommittal smiles from him. "Mr. Woods," they chirruped, "who was the person who provided $2,500,000 for the American School for Classical Studies at Athens to excavate the ancient public market place of Athens...
...Cannon with Dr. Philip Bard pared off various parts from the brains of animals and studied what functions were lost and what remained. They discovered that emotional activity is controlled by a very small section in the optic thalamus. This is either of a pair of oblong masses of grey matter situated in the inner recesses of the brain. It is the most primitive part of the brain and is common in all vertebrates from fishes to man. The higher thought centres of the brain keep this primitive focus under control. But if the higher controls are injured or dulled...