Word: hues
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Bao Dai, 23, Buddhist Emperor of Annam; and his Roman Catholic Empress Marie N'Guyen Houhao, 20; a son, their first; in Hue, Annam...
Last week's job on the tower took a new turn; various parts of the dome were painted with different shades of blue. Now authorities, from some distant vantage point, may compare the fastness of each hue. Some day they'll find the shade, insists the Maintenance Department...
...necessity of keeping the dead band of politics from touching any institution of learning will be readily admitted by all but the most violent radicals, of either fascist or communist hue. On the other hand, there is a danger in being too dogmatic concerning the role to be played by university professors when called upon to serve the government...
These reports stand on their own merits and are not lightly to be dismissed. But it is permissable to raise some perennial questions which the roseate hue of the reports cannot entirely overcome. First and foremost, of course, comes the large but purely utilitarian problem, is graduate study truly an economic investment? Time was when this admitted only an affirmative answer, with statistical accounting used as corroborative evidence. But today there is considerable skepticism; the chill wind of depression has not swept over college graduates for nothing...
...rate apartment hotel on Park Avenue. In this sense, indeed, it is a universal work, and while he should have been casting the spell of poverty and misery, he lets his love of dialogue run away from him, and the momentary humor of back talk of somewhat Chick Salian hue masks the enduring tragedy of the problem under discussion...