Word: patina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dead German lay in a ditch. In his worn, dirty infantry-private's uniform, he looked like a fallen bronze statue covered with a heavy greyish-green patina-except for the wax-yellow face, the blond hair and the staring blue eyes. He was young, not much over...
...halls of Littauer are soundproofed, and all rooms are lit by the most modern kind of indirect lighting. The desks and chairs of the classrooms are unmarked, bare of the patina that weighs down those of Sever and the New Lecture Hall...
...career, Come Down, My Evenin' Star. Copies were issued by Manhattan's Collectors Record Shop. The recording showed its age. The sound of the little string orchestra that accompanied Lillian had the antique flavor of the wormholes in a Gutenberg Bible or the patina on a Hellenistic bronze...
Everywhere there were signs that there would be enough food for the winter: golden patches deepening in the green velvet counterpane; the full grain in the ear; the arched necks of horses dipping willingly as the first fields fell to the reapers; the sputter of tractors; and the patina of maturity touching the cabbage leaves in thousands of little back yards. God helping, it would be the biggest harvest in all of Britain's history, and people were grateful. Not that they would eat more-they would eat less. But every extra ton of ripening grain...
...orderly in design and in marked contrast to the picturesque jumble of gabled houses removed by the fire. Only the medieval street plan was retained. A new St. Paul's designed by Wren lifted its massive dome over a new City. Two and a half centuries placed the patina of age on Wren's masterpiece, but Londoners still talked about their Great Fire...