Word: buff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just above the middle line of New Jersey the elm-lined streets of Princeton lay immemorially somnolent. In the buff colonial parallelepiped that is Nassau Hall, the permanent cogs of Princeton University prepared in time-honored fashion to open the college, not particularly exercised over the fact that higher education in the U. S. faced a trying moment, and that Princeton, one of the traditional leaders of U. S. pedagogy, was at a corner in its course through its second century...
Besides the makeup. McCall's dress was altered throughout. Otis Lee Wiese, 26-year-old editor, called in as consultant Henry Dreyfuss, stage and industrial designer. They chose new and graceful headline types, experimented with buff panels, brown inks to relieve the black-&-white pages...
...Japanese Government is building a simple, square-towered Parliament not far from the low, buff-colored wooden Imperial Palace. The Diet and House of Peers meet at present in a low, dingy frame building, which "looks like an orphan asylum," according to Japanese correspondents. To this Imperial orphanage went the peers of Japan last week, some in grey silk kimonos, more in frock coats and high button shoes, to sit on stiff benches behind wooden desks and listen to a speech actually addressed to the entire world: an explanation by Foreign Minister Count Yasuya Uchida of his country's foreign...
...transatlantic crossing in one plane. Besides the four Hutchinsons there were a navigator, radioman, mechanic, and an RKO-Van Buren cinematographer. On their take-off from Floyd Bennett Field. N. Y., the Hutchinsons?George, 30, Blanche, 28, Kathryn, 8, Janet Lee, 6?were uniformed in brown sport coats, buff polo shirts, suede riding breeches. So were the dolls, Kathryn's Patsy Joan and Janet's Patsy...
...Armstrong '32; 3, J. M. Erickson '32; 2, R. H. Hallowell '33; bow, W. H. Holcombe '33; cox, H. H. Bissell '33. Cornell--Stroke, Wilson; 7, Ives; 6, Garber; 5, McManus; 4, Williams; 3, Parsons; 2, Roeder; bow, Schroeder; cox, Mullestein. Syracuse--Stroke, Lombardi; 7, McKean; 6, Kratina; 5, Buff; 4, Gramlich; 3, Abrams; 2, Ashcroft; bow, Donaldson; cox, Trnavsky...