Word: redder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stars look redder than most astrophysical criteria indicate that they actually are. This apparent astral rubrication might be due to 1) the speeding of stars away from Earth (the Doppler effect of lengthening waves) or 2) the scattering of starlight by star dust and star gases which permeate space...
...looks redder at sundown than at noon because its light traverses a thicker layer of air at evening and is scattered by more particles in the atmosphere. The light lost by scattering reappears as the blue of the sky. It exactly compensates for the redness of direct sunlight...
...room came the words, "I will now introduce 'Spider' Tillman and he will tell you of his experience in this world of sin." While Frederick ("Spider") Tillman told how Christianity had redeemed him from a life of sin, Mrs. Mulholland went white & whiter, John Mulholland went red & redder. Spider Tillman was the first husband whom Mrs. Mulholland had claimed to be dead. John Mulholland called on him at the rescue mission, then sued for annulment of his own marriage to Mrs. Mulholland...
Georgie's last adolescent shock was when her father died and she found among his papers contraceptive devices that were Greek to her, pornographic postcards that were not. When Geoffrey wrote her a brotherly letter of farewell Georgie's big nose got redder; she settled down hopelessly to be a village old maid...
...America once more awakens to the crack of a whip across her cheek by a foreign visitor, and this time, hopefully, the welt seems a little higher and redder than usual...