Word: hue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rather a noble head, white hair and beard, eyes frosty blue, voice alternately brusque or urbane, and he walked always in a silvery gray suit the hue of his cigar ashes. Best seen, he was in the orderly disorder of his speckless, spotless study of a Winter's morning, back to a crackling blaze in the white marble fireplace, drinking strong coffee, smoking a long black cigar and laying down the philological law. "Then," said a devotee, "the old man was sublime...
Naturally I have followed with keen interest the hue and cry in the press regarding the morale of our Army. . . . My personal opinion is that the bulk of the theories advanced for the Army's lack of morale are based on the "gripes" of a minority of those now in the service who, on the whole, are rather indifferent soldiers in any case. The best illustration of the reasons for the lack of morale of the Army which I have yet seen is the enclosed cartoon (see cut) from . . . the Columbia, S.C. newspaper the State...
...concealing coloration is not accident is in part proved, Cott says, by the astonishing variety of color-causes. Some caterpillars are green because their blood absorbs chlorophyll from their food; others because they are transparent, revealing the green food inside them. A South American sloth acquires a concealing greenish hue from symbiotic algae which live...
...coming out from behind the very black clouds for the Varsity baseball team, but it remains to be seen whether it will pop right back in again, after a stay of only one game, or whether it is now out for good, and will shine with a bright Crimson hue for the rest of the campaign
Captain Franny Lee and George Heiden, first string backs, were in uniform but saw no action. Vern Miller was on the sidelines with a sprained knee, but Stan Durwood added a roseate hue to the tackle situation with his standout performance...