Word: pigmentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest attraction of the Drake Relays, as usual, was Queen of the Relays. This year she was 20-year-old, blue-eyed Jane Mareton Phelps, daughter of Vice President Zack Phelps of Krebs Pigment Co., an E. I. du Pont de Nemours subsidiary. Queen Phelps is a junior at Northwestern, where she studies music, collects old bottles, broods over her two greatest ambitions : a big wedding, a big family...
Most of what he saw and reported in the American Medical Association Journal last week was news: The inside of the normal stomach "presents a brilliant picture-glistening, bright, orange red. The apparently normal gastric mucous membrane often contains some hemorrhages and pigment spots. The significance of these is perhaps not yet entirely clear." Stomach ulcers are yellow or greyish white, stomach cancers dark brown or violet...
...researches carried on by President Conant and his associates into the nature of chlorophyll and other such pigment-like substances have gained international recognition, and many students outside the course are expected to attend the lecture...
...etherial spirit abiding in the empyrean, far from the vulgarities of matter. Mr. Laurie is professor of Chemistry to the Royal Academy of Arts, so it is his especial duty to remind the artist and his public of the limits beyond which painting cannot pass: canvas and pigment, for example. Such a reminder is helpful also for the amateur, who will find much to hold his interest even in the first part of Mr. Laurie's book, which deals with the kind of pigments and media accessible to the Egyptians, the Romans, the Greeks, and to the Middle Ages...
Whitey is an albino for the same reason that occasional humans are: congenital lack of black pigment cells in the skin. For some reason albino frogs are far rarer than albino humans, lobsters, squirrels, peacocks, porcupines. About one out of every seven normal humans carries the albino inheritance in his germ-plasm as a recessive Mendelian 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...