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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: How to Hold a Hearing | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Light of Love? | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Seeing Colors | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By S.o M.R. Parnell, | Title: SCUTTLEBUTT | 4/23/1943 | See Source »

...Crimson, the usual sextet is slated to open the contest Calob Loring, Mare Beebe and Billy Harding still constitute the first string Hue, Captain Johnny Paine and Dick Mechem will man their defensive posts, and Goodie Harding is at goal...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: SEXTET FACES NORTHEASTERN; WESLEYAN FIVE TO PLAY HERE | 12/11/1942 | See Source »

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