Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude"-thus reads the 15th Amendment to the Constitution as ratified...
...canals were estimated at 30 to 100 miles in width and Prof. Lowell believed them to be belts of irrigated country close to canals. He believed further that they were supplied with water by the melting of the polar caps, and thought he dectected changes in the darkness and color of the canals indicating the coming and going of the water and its effect on vegetation. The whole supposition that there is animal life on Mars rests on the fact that the alleged canals are absolutely straight, running along great arcs of the planet's surface...
...Buffalo, hulking Homer Smith, Kalamazoo heavyweight, spent an evening knocking down Battling Siki, polygamous Sengalese. Next day, Siki's left eye was such a different color from the rest of his face, and of such an unusual shape, that he repaired to the New York Boxing Commission and postponed his en counter with Jock McDonald, sched uled for four days later...
...Professor Herbert E. Roaf expressed his belief that it will be possible to correct colorblindness or "hypochromatic vision" by wearing over one eye a color filter or colored eyeglass...
...color" account in the newspapers described lower Broadway at this moment: "The terra cotta canyon was visited by a blinding, whirling mass of paper, stock tickertape, torn newspapers and shredded telephone books which were hurled from the thousands of windows that overlooked the street...