Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There was Kamenev, Acting Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, sitting with his beautiful wife. Side by side sat Krassikov, President of the Supreme Court; Kursky, Commissioner of Justice; Minjiniki Elyava, Head of the Trans-Caucasian Federation; Karl Redek, famed diplomat; another arch-devil, Bela Kun, quondam Red Dictator of Hungary. In the dock a small man, quite bald, about 45, dressed in a cheap double-breasted grey sack suit and a thin black tie. His face was reminiscent of a youthful Napoleon, but "cadaverous and drawn with deep shadows under the eyes." He was unafraid and viewed...
...made to transmit a colored picture. It involved merely another application of the same device. A colored picture of Rodolph Valentino, in M. Beaucaire, was photographed three times, once with a blue screen to take the blues, once with a yellow screen to take the yellows, once with a red screen to take the reds. These photographs were then transmitted separately. The only difference of method was that the lines of each picture were at a different angle across the plate, so that when they were reproduced they would blend instead of blur...
...three photographs were transmitted from Chicago to Manhattan. A color plate was made from each and the three plates were printed one after another on paper, reproducing the original picture in full color. Not only were the three primary colors obtained-blue, yellow and red-but several secondary colors including green, purple, orange, violet, pink...
...drew back and looked around me?it was a beautiful and terrible sight. The gloomy walls of the crater rose up on all sides, splashed here and there by red and yellow patches and lit up fantastically by the sunlight. The smoke rose up from the mouth in great curves and spread itself about in the crater, but, fortunately, nearly always in the opposite direction from where I was standing. I raised my voice and repeatedly called out to my companion, whom I could just see above me on the edge of the crater, in order to try the famous...
...sweet birds of the Lord With earth's waters make accord: The Muses' sacred grove be wet With the red dew of Olivet, And Sappho lay her burning brows In white Cecilia's lap of snows...