Word: shading
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...annual spring appearance of the common housefly seemed the right time for Professor Stanley Barron Freeborn of the University of California to report the color preferences of that ubiquitous pest. It appeared that fly paper should be bright orange, a shade all flies like best; that tablecloths should be pale green, the least liked color. Dr. Freeborn, specialist in sheep & poultry parasites, conducted his housefly balloting by exposing a big rectangular board divided into squares of different colors, counting the number of insects which alighted on each (without taking repeaters into account). The vote: orange, 10,572; primrose yellow...
...Paul." When he arrived at the Cardinals' training camp in Bradenton. Fla. last year, Pitcher Dean astounded reporters by promising that he and his Brother Paul would win 45 games. They won 49. This season, Pitcher Dean was a shade more circumspect. Said he: "I hope they let me pitch the ones they really want to win but you see I'm a regular star today. Frankie Frisch won't rely on me as much this summer as he did last year. I can't do the managing and pitching all at once. . . . Frankie thinks...
...form of Marxian exegesis. Often too obviously propaganda for Marxian dogmas, they are apt to make dull if uncomfortable reading for non-Marxians. But last year Robert Cantwell's The Land of Plenty, last week Robert Whitcomb's Talk United States! showed readers of every shade that a novel could be first-rate as well as proletarian...
...Abyssinia from the blanketing coast of Eritrea, their cheers would not last long after they hit the Danakil. A natural moat, 400 miles long and 150 wide, it roughly parallels the Abyssinian border, sinks to 400 feet below sea level, boasts temperatures as high as 156° in the shade. Before Explorer Nesbitt, no white man had ever succeeded in crossing it, though three expeditions had tried. In Hell-Hole of Creation he tells how he and two Italian companions, with a native caravan, traversed the entire length of the Danakil in eventual safety, though only occasional comfort. In spite...
...anxious moment. (A feather stuck in a Danakil topknot shows that a year has not elapsed since he killed a man.) Three of the expedition's carriers strayed too far from camp, never came back. Hottest day's temperature recorded was 168°F. Even in the shade it was unwise to touch a rifle-barrel. Because the temperature of the human body is only 98°, they found it cooled their hands to put them under their armpits...