Word: colored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modernization is turning the dreary classrooms into models of educational equipment: decorated in three different color schemes, yellow, green, and grey. As a final touch, the front wall of each room will be a shade darker than the side walls, a psychological device designed to keep the students' attention focused on the instructor...
...boast about: Master Illuminator Jean de Tavernier and Tapestry-maker Pasquier Grenier, whose works, commissioned by the great lords of the 15th Century, are now treasured by the museums and libraries of Europe; Painters Roger van der Weyden, Robert Campin and Jacques Daret, whose realistic detail and rich color placed them in the vanguard of the great Flemish artists of the Renaissance...
Plaster walls have been painted with a view to the light-reflecting and eye-resting qualities of the color's used. North-side rooms have yellow walls to maximize sunlight, while in the other living quarters the conventional plain ivory has been supplanted by pastel grey, green, and blue...
...weeks before the scheduled game, martial law is declared on both campuses. Raiding parties can be expected any night. A concrete "C" in the Berkeley Hills usually gets a coat of cardinal red paint (Stanford's color), and numerous blue C's appear on the Farm. At Stanford, the defense of the college is turned over to the freshmen. Groups of these eager youths patrol the campus all night long. At any sign of danger, they ring the fire bell, the signal for the whole college to come to their aid. Both universities threaten expulsion for anyone caught defacing property...
...asked of a jury in New York's Federal Courthouse and of a nation outside. But the quiz game became really perplexing when the defense brought in testimony on a book theft from the Columbia Library over 20 years ago, and when the prosecution started asking about the color of wall-paper. The jury, confused, but air-conditioned, fiddled with a Woodstock typewriter and then gave up; they were 8 to 4 for conviction, and they were as angry and upset as most others. One juryman, who had been in the majority, told reporters, "We pounded hell out of those...