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Eyes for Nipples. When Byron reached Switzerland, he wrote on the hotel blotter after the question Age?: 100. He was 28. But his thick reddish hair was already greying, though "darkened by the lavish use of macassar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the Dark Tower | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

Princeton's orange and black is taking on a very reddish tinge with the undergraduate dance committee naming their big dance tomorrow night the "Crimson Cotillion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tigers Name Cotillion Tomorrow for Crimson | 10/31/1941 | See Source »

...fewer nebulae out near the 500,000,000 light-year limit of range, and some scientists assumed that this might be the approximate radius beyond which lay infinite emptiness. But Astronomers Albert Edward Whitford and Joel Stebbins of the University of Wisconsin knew that the far-off nebulae were reddish (a spectroscopic phenomenon which makes many astronomers believe outer galaxies are moving away from the earth). They also knew that red photographs poorly and suspected a lot of nebulae were being overlooked. Their experiments with plates sensitive to ultraviolet light revealed so many additional nebulae that the question of whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Red in the Outer Darkness | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

...gravid women. From them colostrum is extracted, mixed with sterile salt solution and a preservative chemical, stored under refrigeration to await use. To make a Falls test, a small amount of the colostrum preparation is injected into a woman's forearm. If she is not pregnant, a reddish weal will appear. If she is pregnant she will not react. Theory is that pregnant women, secreting colostrum of their own, are immune to injections of it from a foreign source...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pregnant or Not? | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...bugs, which are small and of a reddish, hue, disappear during the day but at night pay calls to the Yardlings in their beds. Many of the students have taken kindly to the little things, but one Freshman, tired of squirming in his bed all night has recently left Matthews in high dudgeon and taken up residence at Apley Court...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bedbugs Disregard Rule Banning Pets | 2/15/1941 | See Source »

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