Word: colored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...League Album on the victrola. The new changes had left him bewildered. Like going into the Widener Reading Room, he thought, and finding a pink convertible parked in front of the circulation desk. Nothing left to count on around here even the bursar's card had changed color. Was there any thing...
Both men will be in the Stadium tomorrow, hungry for more TD's. To match these aces, Art Valpey has a few color cards of his own. Here's the way the Crimson backfield will probably line up tomorrow: Bill Henry at quarterback, Captain Kenny O'Donnell at wingback, Chip Gannon or Paul Shafer at fullback, and Jimmy Noonan or Chuck Roche at tailback...
...passenger gazed last week at four-color advertisements of the new, promised land, he was bothered by a small, nagging doubt. There were radios in every room, built-in nurseries, movie theaters, lounge cars with Astra Domes, and trim hostesses. Were these wonders for him, or just for the cross-the-country glamor trade? Would he still have to stand in line 20 minutes or more for a seat in the diner? Would trains still lurch like a wounded moose on jolting roadbeds? Perhaps what the passenger really wanted was less fluorescent and chromium luxury and more plain, old-fashioned...
...subject sits with his eyes closed and thinks, for instance, about a familiar face. An alpha wave sweeps across his brain. In some mysterious way, not yet understood, the wave is able to select the right impulses stored in the memory circuits. Many impulses, representing color, shape, light and shade, blend together into a picture of the remembered person's face...
...black & white design in a couple of eight-hour days, for Post Office Department approval. If all went well, Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson would scratch his name under the design and send it back to the Bureau for engraving. Later, he would decide on the stamp's color...