Word: buff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next two years. $17.50 and a stock dividend of 150 in 1920. The present rate is $4. Typical of a big company's line are such Dixon brands as the green Anglo-Saxon, blue Rapid Writer, Thinex, black Beginners, Lumber Crayon, red-white-&-blue Uncle Sam, buff & blue Bicentennial, purple Violo...
Upon French Lick, famed Indiana spa 42 mi. from the centre of U. S. population, converged last week 23 Governors of 23 States for their 23rd annual convention. Through the broad lobby of the big, buff French Lick Springs Hotel, set among wooded hills, they marched back & forth smoking, joshing, talking politics. They drank Pluto water ("If nature won't, Pluto will") at 55° direct from the spring -or piping hot at the hotel buffet. Many were the regretful comments on the absence of their friend, the late great Tom Taggart, Democratic boss of Indiana and millionaire proprietor...
...series of photographs of Dunster House and Lowell House, made by P. J. Weber of Boston as a part of the permanent University photographic file, will be on display in those two Houses beginning Thursday. Students will be given an opportunity to purchase these 3 by 10 inches buff prints, mounted on Japanese paper, at $2.00 a copy. The University holds all rights to the negatives which make up this file...
...first floating service station, specially built to supply seaplanes and watercraft. All tanks are below deck, with no projection above except an office at the stern. The fuelling pumps are sunk in pits to safeguard the wings of aircraft drawn alongside. Richfield plans 99 similar units, painted with blue & buff checks for easy recognition from...
...cartoonists opened their birdbooks to amplify their knowledge of the bird (Philohela Minor) whose name Commissioner Woodcock bears. An upland species of snipe, highly prized by sportsmen and epicures, the woodcock has a long, long bill and practically no tail at all. Its plumage is heavily mottled- brown, black, buff, grey-protective coloration for thickety ground. It can thrive only in wet (or at least moist) places, where it can probe for worms without bending or breaking its bill. That it may spy its enemies while it feeds, its eyes-large, nearsighted, goggling-are close together near...