Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Characteristic, without prejudice, was the TIME, Nov. 19 account of the Negro "Gentleman from Illinois." I fear many Southerners-not only "hot-blooded Congressmen from the South"-will let the color of Chicago's new Democratic Representative Arthur Mitchell shade their opinions of his ability. . . . Moving here eight years ago a Chicagoan until then-I have failed miserably in an earnest attempt to find justification for the Southern attitude toward all Negroes...
...Mirror's first prize is $5,000. Second prize, valued at $4,000, must be taken in the form of a bungalow at Lake Parsippany, N. J. The 500 lesser prizes likewise are in merchandise. Each puzzler is obliged to buy a 10? "color print of a popular movie star" with each week's answers. Estimated revenue: $35,000, which will just about cover the cost of the contest, exclusive of prizes...
...Brooklyn color processor who found his paper distorted by atmospheric humidity went to Buffalo Forge Co. to see what could be done. In the company's employ was Willis Carrier, just out of Cornell. Young Carrier was interested, began to experiment, found that warm wet air could be cooled and dried by passing it through an atomized spray. By 1915 he had recruited a partner and enough capital to start Carrier Engineering Corp. in Newark, N. J. In 1922 he invented a centrifugal refrigerating compressor which has been a potent factor in building Carrier prestige. He works hard...
...future reference in determining sky has now been mapped to show the number of stars of each magnitude in every section, and when the survey is complete 200 representative sections will be selected for use in an intensive study of spectra and color differences...
...mention of that aging Methodist, a paragraph in the hierarchy's statement was aimed straight at him: "We cannot but deplore the expressions unwittingly offered, at times, of sympathy with and support of governments and policies which are absolutely at variance with our own American principles. They give color to the boast of the supporters of tyrannical policies, that the influence of our American Government is favorable to such policies. We do not believe, for a moment, that it is. It could...