Word: magenta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson marks 70 years of continuous publication. The peace and war prosperity and depression, cynicism and faith, liberalism and conservatism of those years are captured on its pages. The course of American history is traced in the musty bound volumes of past papers. Only a few years before the Magenta first saw the light of day, came the war between the states. The newly born publication gazed on the socalled "reconstruction" of the Union, the abuses and debauchery that marked the spoilation of a great opportunity. Today the Crimson defends the position of minorities, in this nation and all nations...
...PHILOSOPHIZE. I will be read." An unusual contention for a college newspaper of the period, but nonetheless, this was the motto of the earliest version of today's Crimson--The Magenta, first published on January 24, 1873. Five of the six undergraduate newspapers founded in the Nineteenth Century had already folded the last, the Advocate, held a position of seemingly unchallengeable strength in the Harvard community, Nonetheless, a handful of undergraduates were willing to make the attempt, once more, to give the University a newspaper...
...Crimson will commemorate the centennial with a 38 page special edition on Wednesday exactly 100 years from the date of its first issue The newspaper then a biweekly called the Magenta began publishing...
...great find was a group of clever toy whistles made by craftsmen in the Arkhangelsk and Tula regions from 1890 through 1910. The whistles are in the form of horses, dogs, bears, a hen and her chicks, and peasants, and are gaily decorated with bright yellow, peacock blue, and magenta stripes. My favorite one depicts a troika--three little horses' heads connected to one tiny horse's body...
...more sophisticated" look. Longer skirts, heavier fabrics and the once again popular basic black demand an accenting feature, and this season it will be a colorful face. No firm seems more confident of that trend than London's Biba Cosmetics, which already is selling lipsticks in Prune and Magenta shades. This fall, Biba will add to its lipstick line two colors that are bound to make men happy to see red: Matisse Green and Royal Blue...