Word: blende
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...economic flavor of Professor Beard's former works, that economic bias which has done so much to discredit what its pedantic opponents have seen fit to call the "new" history, is to be found in "The Rise of American Civilization", only in the degree to which it may best blend with the political history, the social history, the intellectual history of the subject with which the study deals...
...alone a raison dieter for Cambridge police, but a hors d'oeuvre for the jaded taste of the usual Cantabridgian. To know that when the tradie is quarter and the steam shovels have momentarily a ceased steam shovels have momentarily ceased steam shovelling a gay group of engineers will blend their voices and the windows of the Square in the harmony of a delightful and unique discord is refreshing. Hats off to the engineers they make such excellent mobs...
...record it. Such spraying valleys, such a flight of flowers and beasts, are the speech of a man who loved the world and knew its changing story. Reds ring together like swords clashing in a book; the silver of the hills, mountain greenery, the gold of the sea, blend and flash under the square border where no wind blows, where the genii squat on their haunches, half-gods patient of subjection, waiting without haste for the repose of all things...
...these color-pattern negatives, and printed one over the other-exactly-with the result that the original subject was reproduced in its natural colors. The points of screened primary color lay close beside each other (as painters have learned to place them, for vividness and clarity), letting the eye blend them into greens, oranges, browns, purples. It was found that an additional plate, bringing in the values of grey
...Churchill will make it their purpose to clear up several disagreements as to the nature of the fish of the region. It is a matter for debate whether they are Artic sea trout or salmon. It is possible that as the water grows colder the species change and blend together. This is important from the commercial point of view as the supply of salmon farther south is rapidly dwindling...