Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British chemist named Greville Williams broke down natural rubber by distillation, obtained a hydrocarbon compound called isoprene. In 1882 William Tilden, also of Britain, made isoprene by .racking turpentine vapor in a red-hot tube...
...decide between sacrificing life and holding out as a theatrical gesture." Thousands of Belgian refugees poured back from Dunkirk, Calais, other cities to which they had fled, looking along gutted streets for lost husbands, wives, parents, children. The King had to appeal to the International Red Cross to see to the safety of his own three small, motherless children. No one seemed to know where Crown Prince Baudouin Albert, aged 9, and his brother and sister were. Paris said in Rome; Berlin said in southern France...
...that it was farinaceous, fattening and foolish-making, that in the next war "the most nimble people will win." In a campaign against conservative, bourgeois dress, he manifestoed in favor of aluminum neckties. In support of Fascist flag-waving, he manifestoed in favor of a national cocktail composed of red, white and green liquors. And when Italy went on the warpath for an Ethiopian Empire, he signed up and went to East Africa, busy with "ideas for Army headgear of celluloid and air-cooled aluminum to mitigate the Ethiopian desert." On foreign policy he has been no less articulate. Once...
Sprawling next to the new University Hospital were the ramshackle buildings of Blockley (Philadelphia General Hospital), oldest in the U. S. (founded 1732). Near Blockley's rear gate was a narrow, two-story, red brick building, the old autopsy house. There Dr. Osier went every afternoon, a top hat on the back of his head, a pack of adoring students at his heels. In a bare room furnished only with a storage vault and a ston'e table, he cut up corpses the old janitor had saved...
...party at Gizeh in Egypt, where it has labored continuously for 35 years, and where it unearthed among other treasures the gold-cased furniture of Queen Hetep heres I. The American Schools of Oriental Research have a party on the site of King Solomon's ancient Red Sea port (TIME, May 30, 1938) and an expedition based at Bagdad which is making a prehistoric survey of North Syria and Iraq. All these archeologists have to be ready to jump at the first crack of a cannon...