Word: redder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face of Comptroller Joseph D. McGoldrick of big, expensive New York City last fortnight when his boast of a $325,000,000 saving turned out, due to an error in adding, to be $200,000,000 too big (TIME, Jan. 23), Redder still was the face of Governor George D. Aiken of small, thrifty Vermont last week when, after discovery of an error by his finance commission, a surplus of $653,000 for 1941, which he had happily forecast in his budget message, became a deficit...
...size of the particles in the vast dust cloud of the Orion Nebula. In this case the particles scatter the blue and yellow-green components of the light of stars in the cloud, letting only long infra-red rays filter through. Hence the stars appear much redder than normal. The wave lengths Baade & Minkowski recorded convinced them that the dust grains in the nebula were about .000004 inch in diameter...
...Redder and rowdier than any other U. S. seat of learning is the College of the City of New York, many of whose 22,000 politically-minded students seem to get their best fun at mass meetings or on picket lines. Completely antipodal is C. C. N. Y.'s President Frederick Bertrand Robinson, goateed, independent oldster who dresses conservatively, plays the cello, hates the rude manners of his undergraduates. After President Robinson characterized some C. C. N. Y. demonstrators as "guttersnipes" and trounced a dozen of the rowdiest of them with his umbrella, a committee of alumni solemnly found...
...baby, nobody attending her during hours of labor; nobody by her side then except that man who walked yonder in the war valley where the poppies somehow give off a new blood color to the taproot and make it redder by virtue of the selfsame blood that gave this country birth. And this morning she is there in that manger. Why, she has been feeding all of her babies on oatmeal soup for a week, please God, with the aid of her husband while she lies there without any sort of comfort whatever...
Seldom if ever had such a charge been heard in the U. S. Senate. Huey Long who is far too astute to stoop to such blundering knavery, leaned back and roared with laughter, jerking his thumb toward Wheeler who sat beside him. Redder still of face, Clark spluttered an apology and sat down...