Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...professors of the physics department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced last week the invention of a colorimeter which may displace human judgment in matching colors. By means of the colorimeter, the record of the color of a gown, a ribbon or even a flower can be made in Manhattan and transmitted by telegraph to San Francisco to be matched accurately...
...stationed to one side of No Man's Land and the Communication and Radio Details worked like lightning to spread their networks over the field. From the baseball stands a band blared patrlotic anthems, and the commands of the officers blended with the stentorian shouts of the men. The Color Guard advanced with flying banners, and at the signal given by C. B. Mayo, Commander, U. S. N., the battle began...
Sculptor John Gregory of Manhattan launched upon a vision of what architects and allied artists would accomplish: "The nation will be engrossed in art. Streets will lose their present character and become canyons of brass and color. They will be designed in units rather than as collections of buildings...
That the Chinese band carrying strings of firecrackers on bamboo poles, which met them at Shanghai, and the flower girls who escorted the Queen of Spain to her lesson in U. S. student jazz, were characteristic minutiae of the color and folkways observed by students of history, sociology and kindred subjects, at first hand instead of in books...
...with the common sense and dignity with which George Eliot herself regarded it. As a matter of fact Miss Haldane does not have the talent for "human interest"; she gives the background of Mary Ann Evans in a thoughtful and competent style, but she does not attempt to give color and sparkle to an essentially serious story Yet in the end the figure of the brilliant, high-minded woman emerges, the writer who as she was one of the most retiring of the great novelists of the last century, saw deeper, perhaps, below the surface of life than...