Word: colors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...casual observer, the Hall of Mirrors in Cincinnati's Hotel Netherland Plaza might have been mistaken for a hat factory last week. Six long tables littered with headgear-straws of every shape, felts of every color-stretched like assembly lines the length of the room. The long lines of men who sat along both sides of the tables were assembling not hats but a plan of campaign against their rival brothers of toil. They were the representatives of 102 national and international unions,* members of the A. F. of L. They had been called together by the Federation...
Second concerns the question of ink and handwriting. It would, of course, be ridiculous to think of bringing a different color ink to class for each question. So we will direct our attention to the handwriting. It would be too difficult for a student to concentrate on answering a question, keeping an eye on the next man's paper, trying to look innocent, and also changing his handwriting for each question...
...straight, vertical lines. Cecile, the tallest, loves mirrors and red objects. Annette draws in sweeping circles. Yvonne paints spirals and is the most inventive. Lately their favorite game has been biting each other, and they know that the punishment for this is being sent to Coventry. Each has distinct color preferences (see front cover...
...made to sound like either, so simple that a child can master it. Last week at a Swarthmore concert the oscillion made its world debut, playing the long clarinet passages in Cesar Franck's D Minor Symphony without a mishap. Listeners thought the oscillion lacked color, was a little twangier in tone, otherwise indistinguishable from the woodwind it replaced...
...banks as well as insurance companies, selling an investment along with protection. Liberal eyebrows are occasionally lifted at the bulging concentration of savings entrusted to a handful of self-perpetuating managements but in general the arguments for the divorce of the insurance and banking functions have little political color...