Word: color
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prime grievance of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is the fact that all but one of the 17 Southern States exclude Negroes from their Universities. Year ago, as a test case, NAACP brought crusty University of Maryland into Maryland's Court of Appeals, succeeded in breaking its 128-year-old bar against Negroes. Last fortnight NAACP and Negro Lloyd Gaines marched into Circuit Court at Columbia, Mo. to see whether University of Missouri, lily-white since its opening in 1841, could be likewise forced across the color line...
...hundred and twenty presses are now drumming out 200,000 catalogs a day, will not complete their run until sometime in September. Donnelley's has four-color presses in which special chemicals dry the ink quickly, machines which wrap and label 8000 books an hour. Five hundred girls do nothing but hand-work- inserting color pages and swatches of cloth. One girl can stick on 1000 swatches an hour-about one every three seconds. In binding the books no stitching is used; the pages are stuck together as they whiz through a glueing machine...
Sears: 102 color plates...
...steady green light and green paper or walls should be in the bedrooms of young male children as this color raises the male sex urge to a higher level...
Shortly afterward, despite his absence from the life class, he won a $500 traveling scholarship. Wandering into the Sainte Chapelle in Paris just as the sunset struck its windows, Student Saint was overwhelmed by the "solid walls of jewel-like color - rubies, sapphires, golds, topaz tints, amethysts, Tokay grape shades and whites like old lace." His interest solidly caught in this religious art, Lawrence Saint lost no time in becoming an expert on stained glass, made 50 notable illustrations for the famed Stained Glass of the Middle Ages in England and France by English Expert Hugh Arnold...