Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first achieved fame playing Shaw's Saint Joan in German at 17. The Civic Theatre of Washington, D. C. had a production of Saint Joan scheduled. She agreed to go there, donate her services for a week in a production whose proceeds would go to the Red Cross...
Triturus viridescens is a U. S. newt which spends the first three to six months of its life as a water larva, then-in some parts of the country at least-comes out to take up residence on land. On land the newts are bright red in color, are known as "red efts." During this phase they are immature and cannot reproduce. After three or four years, they go back to the water, slough off the red skin of adolescence, assume the olive-green garb of adults, acquire the keeled tail of an aquatic animal, and tackle the business...
Biologists Edwin Eustace Reinke and Claude Simpson Chadwick of Vanderbilt University and the Highlands (N.C.) Biological Laboratory nabbed some North Carolina specimens of T. viridescens in the immature red eft stage and implanted bits of adult pituitary gland in their muscles. Within six days the newts went into the water and assumed the adult body color and tail shape. Thus it seemed that the pituitary provided not only the necessary physiological changes for aquatic life but also the "water drive" or impulse to seek water...
...make sure that neither the sex glands nor thyroids are involved in the newts' water drive, Reinke & Chadwick removed the sex glands from some red efts, the thyroids from others, both the sex glands and thyroids from still others, and then repeated the pituitary treatment...
...Piper was attending the Los Angeles aircraft show on March 16, 1937, his plant burned to the ground. Only 15 planes, some wings, fuselages, spare parts were saved. When he got back, he found his mechanics out on the field putting together a plane with one silver wing, one red one. Pocketing his $75,000 loss (virtually no insurance), he bought a fireproof brick building from Susquehanna Silk Mills in Lock Haven, Pa., 80 miles away, renamed his company Piper Aircraft Corp., and started over. His loss for the year was only $39,555, and in 1938 profits were...