Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifty thousand youths had come to celebrate the 21st birthday of the Boy Scouts of the World. Their ages ranged from 12 to 18, their color from white to black...
...examinations. The mental ex- aminations were stimulating. He passed them handily. Physically he was found whole and sound?except that when a bundle of many-hued yarns was set before him, he picked yellow for green, green for blue, blue for purple. The Navy wants men who can recognize colors. The Navy rejected Candidate Rupp for color-blindness...
California's Senator Shortridge called for "human consideration rather than legal technicalities," extenuated the offense on the ground of "patriotism and zeal to serve." Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, who has a son of his own keen on the sea, was understanding. At a signal from him, color-blind Candidate Rupp was set free, sent home to his parents...
...Josnua Reynolds weightily pronounced blue to be unsuitable as a prevailing color in paintings. Almost simultaneously Artist Thomas Gainsborough produced his famed Blue Boy, intentionally or not a complete confutation of haughty Artist Reynolds...
...American friends as well as those Americans who are not our friends, put this in your pipe; you will never see the color of our $400,000,000 on August first...