Word: paled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last thing anybody would take James Henry ("Slim") Carmichael Jr. for is an air pilot. Tall, gaunt, pale, anemic, he looks much more like an undernourished ledger clerk. But "Slim" Carmichael is an iron-nerved airman who got his training in a tough school: flying passengers over the Alleghenies in single-motored Lockheeds. One night last week his nerves and training stood him in good stead...
...annual spring appearance of the common housefly seemed the right time for Professor Stanley Barron Freeborn of the University of California to report the color preferences of that ubiquitous pest. It appeared that fly paper should be bright orange, a shade all flies like best; that tablecloths should be pale green, the least liked color. Dr. Freeborn, specialist in sheep & poultry parasites, conducted his housefly balloting by exposing a big rectangular board divided into squares of different colors, counting the number of insects which alighted on each (without taking repeaters into account). The vote: orange, 10,572; primrose yellow...
...throw a fit. The fit may be mild and quick-a momentary rigidity during which the epileptic grows pallid and drops whatever is in his hands. Or the fit may be a grand mal, the epileptic uttering a loud shout and dropping like a log to the ground, face pale, eyes rolling, hands clenched, legs spread stiffly. After a few seconds, the epileptic's face goes dusky. He begins to jerk his arms, legs and body, roll his head, clamp his jaws, drool foam. Such an attack may last two or three minutes, after which the epileptic grows limp...
...front page, printed the frog's picture. The creature was an immediate sensation. Reporters and cameramen from, other papers bore down on the Museum in swarms. Although it was a female and Dr. Noble pointed out the obvious fact that it was not white but a pale, faintly rosy yellow, the Press named the frog "Whitey." Picture services dispatched Whitey's likeness throughout the U. S. by airplane, started it across the Atlantic...
...character, and one person in every 25,000 is an albino. Albinism has been recorded in the great majority of animal and plant species. But Dr. Noble, contemplating Whitey, guessed that possibly not more than one like her could be found among millions of pond frogs. Naturalists believe most "pale frogs" are not true albinos but are pale because a pituitary defect impedes the function of their black pigment cells and not because the cells themselves are lacking. When such albinotic frogs are given injections of pituitrin, they turn dark almost at once...