Word: coloration
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State to give any countenance to such a movement would tend to compromise me and lend color to the misrepresentations that apparently are being made in other States...
...long time Joie Ray was the best miler in the U. S. But he was more than that-he had what journalists call color. He would boast about what he was going to do and then he would do it. People called him "Chesty Joe" but they admired him and Ray kept on running and boasting and driving a taxicab in Chicago. Over a year ago he quit competition. Everyone said he was through. And then Ray announced that he was going to enter the 26-mile Boston Marathon on Patriots...
This might have been an automobile show. Glib salesmen talked of beauty of line, color, luxury of appointments. Wise-appearing men and smiling women climbed into the cabin of the comfortable Fairchild ship, sat in the becurtained and be-flowered parlor of the Fokker Super-universal, peeked into the baggageroom and the lavatory boasted by the Loening Amphibian. Army and Navy officers inspected the two Corsairs done in navy blue and silver by Chance Vought. Mail pilots peeked at the streamlined Bellanca, made for speed flying. Collegians assembled about the first plane built with a rumble seat...
...addition to the investigations of rabbits, in the form of two major problems, the subject of the fertility and sterility of certain species of rats, heredity and susceptibility to cancer in mice, and studies of the genetics of guineapig eye-color, many problems and diagnoses of sundry genre of plants have ensued...
This year, in addition to the work of Professor J. J. Haffner and J. B. Conant '13, and H. D. Murphy and H. B. Warren, there has been added a group of oils and water colors by A. L. Ripley, who joined the staff this year to instruct in the life class and in water color sketching...