Word: reddish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toronto, on Oct. 15, 1930, Taxi-driver Alfred Reddish chased a hit-&-run driver for five miles, caught him, turned him over to police. Toronto's police commissioners commended Reddish for "outstanding citizenship...
...Mclntosh is a youthful woman with bobbed, reddish-gold hair and a set of firm opinions. A basic one: it is "tragic" that so many educated women "settle down into domesticity and never raise a peep again." Mrs. Mclntosh speaks on this subject with impressive authority. Educated at Bryn Mawr, Johns Hopkins and Cambridge, she began to teach in 1922, married ten years later. Now the mother of five children, she has done an unruffled job of juggling career and family...
...German scientists hastened to study the body, then approximately 50,000 years old. Other frozen Pleistocene Age mammals had been found from time to time, but this one was so well preserved that half-chewed leaves and grasses still clung to its teeth. Its hide was covered with long, reddish-brown woolly hair. The hind legs measured nearly 50 inches from sole to knee, and weighed about 350 pounds each. The scientists had the "great satisfaction," one of them reported, of finding even the genitals "in the best possible condition. . . . We stood speechless in front of this evidence...
Topped only by the three firsts of Clayton Farrar of the Reddish A. A., Fisher took the 56-pound weight throw with a heave of 34 feet, 2 1/2 inches, and also walked off with top honors in tossing the caber. His winning caber toss was 34 feet, 11 inches...
Permit me to 1) express my gratification for your piece on Mary McLeod Bethune (TIME, July 22) and 2) slip TIME a detonating A-bomb for using the term "Negress" which made my brown face take on a reddish...