Word: greyish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recorded that the color of George Washington's eyes was a light, greyish blue. But when painting his famous portraits of him, Gilbert Stuart made them a deeper blue...
...head. The forehead indeed, was clear and candid, the eyes quick and shrewd, penetrating and sagacious; but below the small flat nose an apelike mouth thrust forward its enormous jaws and pendulous underlip. Her copper-colored hair was coarse, wiry and dull, her skin patchy and of a dull greyish pallor...
Harbison-Walker in shaping their bricks squeeze their clay or ganister mixture into a long greyish bar which, as it crawls out the mold, resembles a creeping crocodile. A slicer armed with steel wires cuts the firm bar into separate bricks just as a string cuts a bar of Ivory soap...
...Germany, cameras clicked at the cause of a greyish-green hue covering the landscape, recorded huge spots on the portion of the sun remaining visible from that angle...
...Jersey, a greyish bubble swaying over Lakehurst broke its anchor (a ground winch), sailed up and away toward the Atlantic. Three specks?an auto, an airplane, a blimp?gave chase. A figure in the passenger basket manipulated valves, lowered the bubble so that its dangling cable trailed across the landscape. Within four miles of the sea, the cable finally tangled itself in a tree. Rescuers pulled down Lieut. Frank J. Uhlig, U. S. Marines, deflated his kite balloon, took both home uninjured...