Word: coloration
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scarcely more than a dozen of the 446,726,752 subjects of George V knew until last week that during His Majesty's illness he has raved in delirium, suffered from a dry, cracked tongue, and turned a livid, bluish color-temporarily...
...short, a clinical picture resembling that of a case of severe typhoid fever in the third and fourth weeks-but with the added anxiety of attacks of dyspnoea [labored breathing due to ineffective action of the heart] and cyanosis [a disordered condition of the circulation, causing a livid, bluish color in the skin], due to strain on the heart...
...broadcast to 2,300,000 policy holders whose insurance totals $6,800,000,000. Said he: "Beauty is the natural handmaiden of power and power is the dominant note in modern American architecture. Here, as in cathedral architecture, power fails without beauty and beauty works through her allies, color, mass and symmetry...
Ordinary snakes were not sufficient to lend local color to the movie the University Film Foundation was planning to take of Dr. Thomas Barbour '06, director of the University Museum. So an eight foot python which has been loaned to the Museum by the Bronx Zoo will be requested to post with the director...
They are easily explained by the fact that Cadillac-La Salle engineers together with Fisher and Fleetwood coachworkers have built 17 automobiles with color schemes derived from paintings by 17 famed artists, from Botticelli to John Singer Sargent. The purpose was to use precisely the colors of the paintings; to give each color its proper value; to distribute the colors so that the result would be practical, utilitarian...