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Word: grayish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...buildings are now swimming in deep grayish mud, but the plot will eventually be landscaped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Botanic Garden Homes Open To Occupants 1 Month Early | 10/6/1949 | See Source »

...using their Sunday off to glean the few stray wheat stalks left in the stubble of a wheatfield. They grind the grain by hand and make a sort of bread. Some, unable to wait, were eagerly breaking the stalk heads open and eating as they gleaned. It left a grayish paste of kernel shell around their lips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Progress (?) Report | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

Arthur Hopkins, typesetter for the SERVICE NEWS, noticing someone moving outside a window of the press room, went upstairs to notify the editors. On returning, he and the editors found the press room clogged with a grayish-white smoke. The bomb was found, and with difficulty removed from the building by Dana Fernald, Editor. The Cambridge Fire Department finally extinguished the bomb in a barrel of water...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hurled Chemical Bomb Smokes Up 14 Plympton | 4/7/1944 | See Source »

Cambridge police put their foot down yesterday, but not on the Charles River ice. According to headquarters the local ice wouldn't hold Harvard men or anyone else, so when the boys in grayish blue saw Thomas I. Crowell, III '43, Robert W. Flint '43, and George W. Hibbert, Jr. "43, enjoying a little blade work on the "no man's ice" they took action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAUTIOUS POLICE NAB THREE '43 DAREDEVILS ON THIN ICE | 1/9/1941 | See Source »

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