Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...litres of pure alcohol (85° C.) for 24 hours. Add 2^ litres of water. Distill this mixture. Take off 21/20 litres of pure distillate. Add to this 2½| litres of pure alcohol (85° C.) and 2¾ litres of distilled water to obtain, in all, about 10 litres of absinthe. Color with chlorophyll...
...them), Hawaii feared what might befall it at the hands of Dr. Gruening, an ex-editor of The Nation. For nothing does Hawaii dread more than that the New Deal's doctors, medical and philosophical, may cause map-makers to tint U. S. possessions with the color hitherto traditionally assigned to Britain's colonies?a bright pink...
...liked was Raymond Hood. . . . Even if you look down the list through the ages Raymond Hood will stand out among the architects of all time as one who had the fortune and the genius to conduct radical experimentation with mass and color. Many have had this privilege on canvas or with clay, but it is rare for a man to be allowed to play around with steel and glass and stone in this fashion...
...hoisted into place on its lugs and screwed down tight with spanners and mauls. The supporting boom swung over the side, cable squeaked, the sphere ducked under. Cable was paid out at 50 ft. per minute. Log of the dive : 500 ft.: School of silvery squid. 900 ft.: Color of water turquoise black...
...with the needle, sews better than anyone in her shop. Although she is reputed to be the daughter of a Monte Carlo cocotte, her contemporaries speak of her with awe and respect, consider her the dressmaker's dressmaker. She achieves a classic elegance of line at the expense of color. To make her gowns cling to the figure she cuts her materials on the bias. A couturier for nearly 40 years, she designs her models on a famed wooden doll...