Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...treatment makes pine as hard as oak, oak as hard as ebony. Wood so treated does not warp, split, swell or shrink appreciably. It resists fire, rotting and termites, can be made as strong as many metals. It can be dyed any color so that it never needs painting or refinishing. If the surface is scratched, its glossy finish can be restored by sandpapering and buffing. Impregnated wood makes possible among other things, doors, windows and drawers that do not stick or get loose...
...roof of the presidential Palace (with a lot of machine guns) are innumerable bottles of water being turned into "medicine" by the sun. The color of the glass determines the specific purpose. When one of the President's associates falls sick, Martínez prescribes a suitable bottle, and the patient invariably reports a miraculous cure. Such reports persuaded the President to treat his 13-year-old son for acute appendicitis. Operated upon too late, he died...
...pictures of the exhibition reflected Occidental draftsmanship. Alert for the Emergency, by Chang Ting-pang, twelve, was a traditionally Chinese water color of wild geese at the edge of a pond, executed with a few nervous brush strokes. Going to Battle was also pure Chinese pen-and-brush work, sketching a peasant figure whose only modern accouterment was the rifle on his shoulder...
...people of the South must draw the color line tighter & tighter...
...Canada had at each other on a London football field last week. The field, with barrage ballons loafing palely overhead in the springtime sky, was London's White City Stadium. There were no cheerleaders, chrysanthemums, furry beauties or meandering drunks; but there was plenty of color. The crowd of 55,000 uniformed men & women heard a U.S. band blast out the Stars and Stripes Forever and the Notre Dame Victory March, and Canada's musicians, in a dozen different tartans, shook the air with the skirling of 112 massed bagpipes...