Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio. Last week at the Milwaukee convention of the American Chemical Society, brilliant young Dr. Rothemund reported that he had finally "activated" chlorophyll in his laboratory. When chlorophyll is heated in certain organic solvents it exhibits chemiluminescence (radiation at low temperatures): gives off "a beautiful red glow." The magnesium or zinc salts of porphyrins also exhibit chemiluminescence when heated in the same manner. Thus chlorophyll not only absorbs light but somehow transforms it and gives it forth again. At present Dr. Rothemund is trying to "correlate the amount of energy dissipated by this radiation...
...From the Greek porphyrcos, meaning purple. When porphyrins (porphin substances) are dissolved in ether they turn purple-red...
...Hippodrome last week, the ancient rafters that once shook for Diver Annette Kellerman shook again with shouts of mucho and arriba, as a cosmopolitan audience, looking like a first-night opera crowd, crammed into tiers of red & gold chairs, witnessed as exciting a jai-alai program as they had ever seen in any Latin country. The program consisted of four games (three doubles and one singles), with entr'actes of Spanish fandangos to keep the spectators' minds off the absence of betting-an integral part of the game's popularity in other cities. Headliners were the "Four...
...Youngest member of the young industry is the Mutual Broadcasting System. Network radio had had several unsuccessful efforts to build a fourth national chain to compete with NBC's Red and Blue, CBS, when in 1934 an advertiser who wanted to reach New York and Chicago listeners, but did not want to pay the cost of network broadcasting, approached stations WOR (Newark) and WGN (Chicago) to make a deal. The sponsor wanted to put on a show to be aired over the two stations. The show originated in Newark and he proposed to pay each station its standard time...
...rapid succession. He rushes at business with the same enthusiasm, somewhat deceptively because the impetuosity breaks down into shrewd caution whenever necessary. When anything important is at stake he chooses his words with astute grace, but he prefers the free extravagance of mixed metaphors. A favorite phrase: "Not a red dime." Youngest and oldest chief executive in the network business, he has come a long way from cigars. He now smokes cigarets...