Word: blue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Entrants for the annual University handicap meet are to sign blue books this week at the Locker Building, Leavitt and Peirce's, the Divinity School, the Law School, and the Business School. All men in the University are eligible to compete in the meet, which will be held...
Behind the flight of Lady Sophie Heath there was jealousy and good British gold-the gold that comes from coal and iron mines which husbands own. Her new husband, Sir James Heath, is 76. She is pretty and 30 and got for her wedding present from him a turquoise blue plane to match her favorite stone...
...race then was Lady Mary's. Zooming went she over the dark green heart of Africa, over the crystal blue of the longest freshwater lake in the world (Tanganyika) . And then, name of a dog, while she spiraled down to land at Tabora (10,000 blackamoors gaping) her motor missed. Suddenly the motor died cold. The Moth crashed to earth, a twisted wreck. She was only slightly injured. Fever loomed...
...baseball season always begins on a cold grey day. Celebrities with stiff fingers and blue noses wish they hadn't promised to throw in the first ball. President Coolidge in a brown fedora, Mayor Walker in spats, Mayor Mackay of Philadelphia in his winter overcoat, tossed in the new white balls and in New York, Brooklyn, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Washington, Boston, Detroit, Chicago, the games began. Mostly the crowds yelled to keep warm, but in Manhattan they had another reason. Before them occurred a dramatic happening...
...first place, not a text-book for architectural school students. Rather is it a history and critique of architecture. The problems discussed are those which would interest the student of art, perhaps the architect, certainly not the contractor. The questions discussed are matters of taste, with but few blue-prints. In brief, the book is written for the layman...