Word: whitings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White's, Boodle's, Brooks's still exist; London's Athenaeum Club is 115 years old. Manhattan's Union Club is 103, its Union League 76. Last week, as bells rang in another year, another Manhattan club turned a corner, looked back sentimentally at its first half-century of life. Lest memory fail, it incorporated that half-century in book form...
...Booth was fired with the idea of establishing a club primarily but not entirely for actors. In the summer of 1887, with fellow-members of a yachting party, he got down to serious planning. During the next year Booth purchased a Manhattan house at 16 Gramercy Park, engaged Stanford White to remodel it, collected 46 charter members, and on the last night of the year, as first president of The Players, handed over the deed of No. 16 to Augustin Daly, the first vice-president. Next day Booth moved in, and for the five remaining years of his life...
...familiar noises as the rhythmic bleating of sea lions, broken by short, harsh, discordant barks, which sound like a few bars from Ravel's Valse. More sophisticated listeners preferred the grotesque beauty of the West African red river hog's grunt, the resonant, whuffing snort of the white-tailed gnu, the whistling whinny of the panda...
Pure science gave way to practical technology when one of Dr. Langmuir's coworkers, Dr. Katharine Burr Blodgett, found that a layer of transparent liquid soap, with a thickness of one-quarter the average wavelength of white light (about 4/1,000,000 in.), made the glass to all intents and purposes invisible. Reason: glass is visible because of the light reflected from its surface; with a soap film there are two reflections, one from the glass and one from the soap; by spacing the two surfaces properly it is possible to get the "crest" of a light wave bouncing...
...Code discovered that: 1) histamine is a normal constituent of white blood cells; 2) certain types of white blood cells, called myeloid (granular) cells, are the source of histamine in the blood; 3) certain types of mature myeloid cells called eosinophils, which increase when the body is disturbed by "sensitizing agents" such as pollens, various foods, are associated with "increased quantities" of histamine in the blood stream...