Word: colors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Used in tempera painting for "binding" pigments to retain brilliance and purity of color...
...from 16 countries, at a cost of about $265,000 and twelve and a half years of work, Mr. Pope's Institute last year finished-and the Oxford University Press last week published-the first three volumes of a colossal, seven-volume Survey of Persian Art containing 200 color plates, 1,300 collotype pages, some 1,800 drawings. Thus made available to anyone with the price ($210) was the handsomest treatment in print of any art tradition...
...this, as in the delicacy and purity of their color, they followed the Persian artists in faience ware, whose work is rivaled only by the Chinese...
However, only Grove City College of Grove City, Pennsylvania, New Mexico College of Agriculture, and Transylvania University, of Lexington, Kentucky, have adopted the color straight. All the others claim two colors. There are seven crimson and grays, six crimson and whites, four crimson and golds, and a handful of crimson and blacks, blues, and a solitary yellow...
Howard University, of Washington, D.C., has a newspapers entitled, exciting enough, the Howard "Crimson." Other information of interest is that Beddington is the only institution without a college color, while Radcliffe's is listed as "Cherry...