Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year the coral-pink prettiness of the Bermuda Islands attracted 79,856 visitors. Of these, well over 90% were Americans, but only 1,088 tourists sailed there on U. S. ships. Early this year, in an attempt to divert U. S. tourist dollars into U. S. pockets, Eastern Steamship Lines decided to run the steamer Acadia (cruise capacity 400) on a weekly schedule to Bermuda, competing chiefly with the British-owned Furness Bermuda Line...
...Statesman J. Hamilton Lewis, whose elegant pink beard has grown grey in 25 years during which he served Illinois off & on in the U. S. Senate, announced he would retire from Congress next year. (His term does not expire till...
Earlier in the spring, Countess Barbara sent Solicitor William M. Mitchell abroad to arrange a divorce, proceedings of which are now going on in Denmark. "My sum," the terms are Danish the child Count and was a quoted as fantastic said to Mr. Mitchell. The quoter bald, pink-cheeked Solicitor Mitchell himself, sole witness in the case to date. The child, as everyone knew, was two-Lance Haugwitz-Reventlow, now a ward in Chancery. The "fantastic sum" later named by Solicitor Mitchell was $5,000,000, about one-eighth of the esti value of Countess Barbara's fortune...
...Frederick Arps and his colleagues in Ohio State University's College of Education started a demonstration high school (grades 7 to 12) on their campus. They admitted all sorts of Columbus youngsters, charged $100-a-year tuition. Today their progressive school of 300 students, "the school with the pink rooms and green blackboards," is one of the most famed in the U. S. Last week it was described in an extraordinary little book collectively written by the 55 children in University School's class of '38, the first to graduate...
...empty stomach. If the mucous lining of the intestinal tract is in the least eroded, the phenolphthalein quickly seeps into the blood stream.* The harmlessly adulterated blood in due course swishes through the kidneys, leaving a residue of phenolphthalein to trickle into the bladder with the urine. Phenolphthalein turns pink when mixed with an alkaline substance like sodium hydroxide. So when Dr. Woldman drops sodium hydroxide into an ulcerated or cancerous individual's urine, the urine turns an indicative pink. For patients too sick for roentgenological study, or in cases where X-ray cannot distinguish between old lesion scars...