Word: grass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blue skies appear yellow in the negative; red lips are blue-green; grass is red. Eastman's color photography has until now been limited to transparent positives ("Kodachromes"), which could, however, be printed on a sort of celluloid at greater cost by another recent Eastman process (TIME, Sept...
...those days the loam in the Genesee bottom lands was 18 feet thick, and the whole valley sprang with grass so rich that wild horses by hundreds roved in it invisibly. It was a stage where the conflicts of a nascent nation played themselves towards ultimate compromise, and it was peopled with some interesting characters...
...foggy night last week a fleet of shiny, grass-green news trucks started careening out of the loading tunnel of the Daily News Building, roared into Chicago's Loop, swerved with loud honking to crash halts at crowded newsstands. "Yo!" yelled the drivers, "the Sun is out!" Fat bundles of papers pitched to the sidewalk, melted like snow on a griddle a few minutes after they were ripped open. Sometimes the newsstand crowd cheered. Chicago was grabbing Vol. 1, No. 1 of Marshall Field's new 2? morning paper, the Tribune-challenging Chicago...
...fruit from Dakar. Since France fell, he has not even received his salary. (Pan Am's Natal chief occasionally gives him a conto or two.) But he still keeps a tarpalin well spread over France's only plane at Natal, an old Fokker; he cuts the grass on the runway; and every night, over his radio, he reports "weather conditions" to Dakar...
...share their love of this place with a Czech immigrant and a handful of local citizens. The plot is no more than their comings & goings, births & deaths, over 60 years. Behind this is Nature's overpowering background of sea, fog, wind; the pages burgeon with blueberries, cranberries, marsh grass, salt spray and ospreys...