Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Observatory has received over thirty letters in answer to their announcement requesting all who saw the brilliant meteor in the southwestern sky last Wednesday night to write in details concerning size, shape, color, tail, duration of light, and accompanying noise. The notice even evoked a letter from Los Angeles describing an astral visitor, but since meteors are never visible until within 100 miles of the earth when there is sufficient atmosphere to afford combustion and the curvature of the earth is approximately seven inches for every mile, the meteor could not have been the one that P. M. Millman...
Secretary Hurley: I disagree with these statements about the United States being weak and off color. Let's be Americans once in a while and have faith in our stability...
...International Style as opposed to "modernist" architecture eschews all decoration and ornament. "Functionalism" (a word overworked ad nauseam) is its watchword. Such beauty as their buildings possess is dependent on fine proportion of individual units, clever use of color, and the technically perfect use of materials. (Cement is sometimes poured in glass-lined forms to give it a marble-like polish.) Light is its fetish. Houses look more and more like aquariums. The four apostles of the International Style are two Germans, a Dutchman and a French Swiss, as follows...
...Parasites have sharp noses, so scientists studied their scent-life, developed synthetic odors to lure them to destruction instead of to meals of human flesh. Incidentally, if an ant met another ant in a pitch-black tunnel its nose would immediately register the other's age, weight, color and sex, and it could act accordingly...
...itch for gay trappings threatens to take more starting form. Blazers are just over the horizon: and once these receive the blessing. Joseph's coat of many colors will indeed become fruitful and infinitely multiply. Heraldie rabbita will cavort on Levereff pajamas; tennis shoes will be tricked out in tri-color; and at length an Eliot man will wear from tip to too the azure and red that proclaim him every inch an elephant...