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Word: buff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...cards and blue cards, buff cards and green cards--in fact cards of every color of the rainbow--will be seen darting across the Yard today in the hands of graduates and undergraduates who are struggling with that great problem of the first of a year, the selection of a full set of new courses. Each man will rush from professor to faculty adviser, and from faculty adviser to Miss Monk in a wild effort to determine how many of the one-third and two-third courses that seem in vogue at present are necessary to satisfy that exacting band...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THOSE STUDY CARDS. | 1/3/1919 | See Source »

...light courts are to be constructed of Woodbury, Bothel or other close-grained white, light pink or gray granite. Above this granite foundation the building, on the exterior, will be of limestone and brick. Above the base the columns, band cornices, window sills, keystones, arches, etc., will be of buff Indiana limestone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONTRACT FOR NEW LIBRARY | 12/9/1912 | See Source »

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