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...chloroform and sodium hydroxide. The fluid containing estrone rises to the top. This fluid is put in two other test tubes and a different chemical reagent added to each, for a double check. If the patient is pregnant, one reagent turns the solution dark brown; the other makes it reddish purple.* With both reagents, it becomes amber if she is not pregnant...
Jazz concerts, which most ambitious bandleaders now aspire to, were out, as far as he was concerned. Bebop, the newest fad in such concerts, left him cold. "Hell, Bach did more bebop in one piece than those guys have ever done." Still, he couldn't quite see his reddish-brown hair at Carnegie-Hall length either; the audiences there were "too special, too chi-chi." He settled on a middle solution: playing Carnegie-Hall stuff for a bebop public. He foresaw that it would be a little "like attacking the Great Wall of China with a nail file." Last...
Under the new team, the Star had gained in ads and circulation (from 98,000 to 141,000), but costs had gone up too. The weekly deficit had risen from $15,000 to $30,000. The Star had suffered from PM's reddish complexion and amateurish approach. It had been stuck with distribution contracts, and wire-service costs that it could not afford ($72,000 a year...
...baffling epidemic in Dundee was reported in the same issue of the Lancet. Women were turning up at doctors' offices suffering from bullous erythema (reddish blisters) on their legs. The doctors wondered: Was it due to chemical burns? To a new skin disease? Dr. John Kinnear, of the Dundee Royal Infirmary, discovered and pondered the fact that all the women had been riding the same tram line. Dr. Kinnear inspected and confirmed a suspicion: bedbugs...
Today the weathered, reddish-grey walls of the abbey's gate tower are flanked by modern lecture halls and a swimming pool. But students proudly point out their abbey's heavy-beamed library, in which Parliament sat during the 17th Century's civil wars. A public (i.e., private) school for the past 25 years, St. Albans now takes in some 450 boys, nearly all sons of townsmen, at a modest tuition of ?15 ($60) per term...