Word: crayon
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Atlantic City is seeing many another wartime change: few visitors throng the eight-mile boardwalk; concessionaires' shops are half empty; sand sculptors have taken to drawing crayon pictures on discreetly lighted easels; and night strollers out after 1:30 a.m. are subject to questioning by the Army and Coast Guard...
...Manhattan's Whitney Museum hung 24 crayon sketches by Ferriss of the finest buildings the U.S. has put up in the past decade. Looming out of the mist like Manhattan at dawn were mighty grain elevators, dizzy-deep dams, steel and glass factories streamlined toward infinity, an outdoor amphitheater scooped like some monumental sculpture...
Lithographs, printed from a dampened stone on which a design, drawn with greasy crayon, retains a coating of printer's ink which fails to stick to the" wet stone. Lithographs have been made since the beginning of the 19th Century, but have become popular with U.S. artists only since the 1920s. Today they are probably the most popular form of print, and their recent development has been almost exclusively a U.S. phenomenon...
...snowy afternoon, in Flint, Mich, a little knot of men stood around a shiny black Chevrolet coupe in Assembly Plant Number Two. Someone had scrawled on its rear window in white crayon: last Chevrolet off Jan. 30, 1942. A reporter and a veteran Chevrolet workman climbed into the car. The reporter stepped on the starter, drove off the assembly line, turned the lights on & off, honked the horn. The strident little beep, echoing through the acres of suddenly silent machinery, signaled the end of an epoch in U.S. industrial history...
...terse warning printed in red chalk inside the players' dressing room at Dillon Field House. There, right beside the door, one of the managers has writ- ten "Remember--in 1939 and Harvard was favored 4 to 1. Yale won both!" The word Yale is underlined three times in blue crayon...