Word: hue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...skin bank was operating last week in a jail. Charles ("Reds") McCullough, 20, who is serving 20 to 40 years in Pennsylvania's Eastern State Penitentiary for highway robbery, gave two big strips of leg skin to a little boy with bad burns around his knees. Daniel Dona hue (see cut), who last month gave skin for the second time to nine-year-old Evelyn Henderson, is serving life for murder...
...this, FCC was allowed no rebuttal, no opportunity to cross-examine witnesses, present documentary evidence that the fired broadcasters might have been pro-Axis, might have been propagandizing. The Committee sat as judge and jury, and the press took up the hue...
...brain) is cut, the animal will change its breeding season. He also found that the intensity of light seems to make little difference; what counts is its duration. The pituitary gland apparently is also stimulated by color: red light, for example, moves starlings to mate more than any other hue...
...acuity-the ability to see well. He points out that the vertebrates with the greatest color vision (bony fishes, reptiles and birds, monkeys, apes and man) are those with the greatest visual acuity-and those most active in the daytime. "It is no accident," says he, that diurnality and hue-discrimination are associated, for they have a common basis in the structure of the retina...
...seems that Company E is bound and determined to follow the footsteps of its predecessor companies in getting themselves supplied with dates for the Regimental Dance on the twenty-sixth at the Copley Plaza, because the hue and cry of the first few days, "Say, where can I get myself a date?" has been changed to, "I've gotta date and she has a friend that wants to go ..." What! You haven't got yours? Well, see any E man for particulars...