Word: hue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus in 1700 AD the citizens of New Haven, tired of contributing to the support of an institution of decided Crimson hue in far-off Cambridge since the year 1644, decided to "educate ministers in their own way," and ten clergymen, Harvard graduates all, convened to do the job. Not until 18 years later, however, in 1718 when a certain Governor of the British East India Company saw fit to contribute his fortune to the Arts and Sciences, did the embryo college become financially secure, and in gratitude they immortalized the name of Elihu Yale...
Saturday's dawn had not yet hit the hills of Hanover when a band of intruders of unmistakable crimson hue were trying to proposition "The Dartmouth's" late-working printer. Negotiations were soon interrupted by he appearance of the paper's imperturbable business manager, who thought nothing the print shop, and proceeded to peruse "the" morning editions...
...month which wanes tonight has verged on sheer poetry of line and hue and motion. Why doesn't Harvard College distill the riotous reds and gleaming golds, the crisp dawns and the slanting sunlight of swift-shrouding evenings...
Britain's paper-hungry publishers had few magazines of their own to sell. Raising a hue & cry about "cultural invasion" by U.S. magazines, they had persuaded the Government to limit U.S. imports. Now they had invasion jitters over a new menace: they had kept out the good only to be inundated...
Permit me to 1) express my gratification for your piece on Mary McLeod Bethune (TIME, July 22) and 2) slip TIME a detonating A-bomb for using the term "Negress" which made my brown face take on a reddish hue...