Word: magentas
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...other collection of Gambia stamps), Alfred F. Lichtenstein, Swiss stamp collector, Miss Ellen F. Nason of Claremont, N. H., collector of Arabian stamps, with all the special issues for Jeddah and Nejd -these and many more sent their best. But one and all, when they beheld a black and magenta stamp lying by itself in a case ten times too big for it, bowed in reverence. This stamp bears upon its breast in bold letters the words "One Cent." Its owner, Arthur Hind, of Utica, paid $32,500 for it. It is the most valuable stamp in the world. Should...
...square, an octagon, a ship, on black and magenta...
Meanwhile Jezebel was leading her husband a merry chase. Finally the poor rumshop keeper, rising in wrath, fell with the knife of an English sailor in his side. After nine days' mourning, Jezebel blossomed forth in magenta, and the handsome widow was soon an object of hate to all the married women of the island and a landmark of delight to visiting sailor...
...next step in the evolution of Harvard football sweater took place the following fall when Harvard, through the enterprise of Morton Prince '75, substituted magenta and white striped jerseys for the undershirts...
...appeared on a Harvard sweeter when the eleven lined up against Tufts on June 4. The game was played at Jarvis Field, and the "Harvards," as the University eleven was at the time referred to by the press, created a sensation by being clothed in white sweaters with a magenta "H," "white pants," and "crimson hose...