Word: colored
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...billboard, the old sledgehammer method of advertising, lacked finesse but was effective. Its value lay in its being the "biggest thing on earth". Now when every vantage place is plastered with bill posters, when bill boards are lighted, the lights colored and flashing, each advertisement is lost in the glare and dazzle of the whole array. Every novelty in noise and color has been exploited, until the buyer's eyes and ears have been exhausted by the massed attack...
...must not change its color...
Kammerer's chief experiments have been on fire salamanders with black and yellow spots. When taken from their natural habitat to yellow soil, they gradually lost their black color, and their offspring were all yellow. Kammerer also grew eyes in the sightless newt, which requires no eyes because it lives in greenish water depths. These results have been called in question by many biologists who claim that they are not instances of true inheritance, but merely of nutritive or chemical influences on the germ cells, the possibility of which is readily admitted...
...unusual about a novel with its scene laid at Harvard. Dozens of them have been written and no doubt dozens more will be written. But most novels about Harvard, strange though it may seem, are not written by Harvard men and are usually utterly lacking in the "atmosphere", "color"--call it what you will--that differentiates Harvard from any other American college. Such books have little or no appeal to those who know the real Harvard; not so with "High Hurdles...
Joseph Husband graduated from Harvard in 1908. He was one of those rare souls who was at one time an editor of the CRIMSON, the Lampoon, and Mother Advocate, so he really knows whereof he speaks when he writes about Harvard. So much for local color. The action is swift and interesting. The story is of a scion of an old New England family who expects the world to bow down and worship his blue blood. He manages to stay in Harvard just about a year and a half. Then, after a painful scene in University 4, he goes west...