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Word: blue (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...Poor beggars!−it's blue with our bones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Insulter Kipling | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...from another plane, is as safe as being on the ground and much more pleasant. Accordingly, the de Sibours would go around the world in a $3,250 airplane which uses 4½ gallons of gas and not quite a pint of oil per hour. It is a blue and silver Moth, named Safari II. The de Sibours will fly only when the weather is right and if they lose their way they will land their little plane most anywhere and get directions. They will be ferried across the largest bodies of water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Airy Epigram | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...wonder if the blue jellyfish . . . out at Point Lobes . . . have kings of their own, big jellyfish, bluer and more transparent than all the rest−and do they have royal weddings, do you suppose? Maybe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Monarchisms | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

Large, limpid eyes of a light color, preferably blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Television | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...Germany, whose scientists have the world's reputation for thoroughness, the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Breeding Science last week put on an exhibition. Present were blue monkeys, yellow rats, kinky-haired rabbits, 40,000 varieties of dandelions. Selective cross breeding had caused the weird results. Apparently species of animals and plants can be changed at man's will or nature's chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Blue Monkeys, Yellow Rats | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

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