Word: greened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modernization is turning the dreary classrooms into models of educational equipment: decorated in three different color schemes, yellow, green, and grey. As a final touch, the front wall of each room will be a shade darker than the side walls, a psychological device designed to keep the students' attention focused on the instructor...
Last week, standing in the rain before Tokyo's Imperial Palace, General Tanaka barked another set of orders in the name of a greater Japan. Once again a roar of motors responded and the old commander's new squadron, a fleet of seven jaunty green motorized pedicabs, went putt-putting down the macadam road on their test flight. They have the name "Qu' avec"-a Japanese notion of the way a Frenchman might say "With whom?" "I call them 'Qu' avec,'" simpered Tanaka, "to indicate that boy & girl might get together pleasantly in pedicab...
Plaster walls have been painted with a view to the light-reflecting and eye-resting qualities of the color's used. North-side rooms have yellow walls to maximize sunlight, while in the other living quarters the conventional plain ivory has been supplanted by pastel grey, green, and blue...
Chicago Bears 17, Green...
...Criminal Mind. In Clearwater, Fla., 14 green flags stolen from the Clear-water Country Club last Christmas were returned with a note: "Sorry but we can't find any use for these." In Wichita Falls, Tex., F. D. Clark reported the disappearance of a 30-ft. telephone pole from Pocahontas Street. In New Brunswick, N.J., Kenneth Bergen's stolen sport jacket and two pairs of slacks were returned with a note: "Too small...