Word: greenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fighting stiff competition all the way with green material, the Varsity Lacrosse team met three straight defeats in its brief vacation schedule. Tuesday saw a landslide of 19 points for the Mount Washington Club to the Varsity's 4; and Thursday brought a 15-2 defeat at the hands of the University of Maryland...
...factory: one five-acre room without windows. Executives and machines were to work side by side, their noises deadened by sound-absorbing ceilings; machines were to be bright orange against black floors to prevent accidents by making everything conspicuous; walls and ceilings, part blue to reflect ultraviolet rays, part green to energize workmen, part white for light and cleanliness. Two hours before closing time, flagging workmen were to be daily revived by a burst of stirring music. But the five-acre room, finished in 1932, still stands empty and idle...
...paint division of du Pont de Nemours & Co.. reduced 13,000 body colors to the 600 listed in the Automotive Color Index. Sent around the world by du Pont to have a look at the color habits of other nations. Colorist Ketcham discovered that Mohammedans will not buy green products because green is their sacred color; that in Japan only the Son of Heaven can have a maroon automobile...
...HILL-Eleanor Green-Doubleday, Doran ($2). Very short first novel of a middle-class family seen through the searching eyes of one of them, a just-grown-up girl. A refreshing contrast to such books as Josephine Johnson's ornate Now in November, Pulitzer Prizewinner for 1935, The Hill is well written, but in prose...
...TUDOR GREEN-W. B. Maxwell-Appleton-Century ($2.50). Microcosmic picture of London suburbia, by an oldtime English author (The Devil's Garden, The Guarded Flame...