Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that time, Dr. Silpher saw a projection, 300 miles in length, the highest point of which extended upwards into the atmosphere some 17 miles. The body was tawny in color. That a cloud could rise so high in such a rarified atmosphere seemed unlikely. The explanation for it was that it was probably a cloud of dust swept from the arid regions of the temperate zone. Recent dust clouds in the middle west of America have reached vastly larger proportions...
...large number of pieces entered in the water color and oil painting divisions of the competition the hanging of photographs had to be held over from last week...
...entirely of painters: Alexander Brook. John Steuart Curry and Jonas Lie of the U. S.; Colin Gill of London; Henrik Lund of Norway; and Belgium's Isadore Opsomer. Pressed for reasons for choosing the Caviedes picture out of the 364 others exhibited, most jurymen thought that its shrewd color scheme was the deciding factor...
Long on the list of WPA projects was a bright colorful mural for this Manhattan jail. Commissioner of Correction Austin Harbutt MacCormick is an avid psychologist, a firm believer in the use of color in the mental readjustment of female prisoners. So is Prison Superintendent Ruth Elizabeth Collins. She had already accepted a collection of travel posters to enliven the bleak, white-tiled corridors of the jail. So now the prisoners march to their individual rooms, the workshops and mess hall through halls burgeoning with such signs as VISIT SPAIN, TRAVEL IN INDIA, SEE SORRENTO. But both Commissioner MacCormick...
...Thousands Cheer. In common with the former, it is laid in a fabulous kingdom found only in operetta. But in comparison with the latter, about the best that can be said is that the same man wrote both books. Jubilee chiefly satisfies the eye. In design and color, the costumery by Irene Sharaff & Connie Depinna probably surpasses anything so far seen on Broadway. But when Jubilee tries to please the ear, and especially when it tries to tickle the funnybone, it is less successful...