Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undeviating, scrupulous, relentless. His "Work of the Digestive Glands" was crowned by the Nobel Prize in 1904. Having mastered the mechanics of digestion he started speculating on psychic stimulation, the power of suggestion on the lower organs. He conditioned various animals to a bell, to a light, to a color, to the beats of a metronome, and in each case, after appearing with the food a few times, the object itself when presented without food caused the salivary gland to secrete steadily...
...squats in the stuffy temples of Asia, to whom unhurried Buddhists babble their patient prayers. This first English temple to Buddha will make no effort to attract converts but will cater to present Buddhists now resident in London. The Buddhist priests will be dressed in robes of orange color. The temple will fly the Buddhist flag. This is an emblem in six hues, blue, red, yellow, white, orange, and a combination of all five, for when Buddha discovered knowledge, under a Bo tree, he found himself surrounded by an aurora containing these bright and wonderful colors...
...lent by Miss M. C. Wheelwright, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Miss A. E. White. Most of the pictures come from the region around Santa Fe. There has been an attempt to have the Indian develop a distinct art of his own, based on the design and color of the older traditions. Most of these paintings portray various ceremonies of peace and war. However, many of the war dances are in reality peace dances performed in a religious spirit to celebrate the close of hostilities...
...these pictures one is particularly impressed by the sureness of technique and the intense interest in color...
...Hubbard '30 stated that the affirmative side was not advocating inter- marriage, but that it did declare that any legal prohibition against intermarriage should be removed. "They say that Cupid is blind, very probably color-blind." He advocated social intermixing as broadening our civilization...