Word: shade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weep, shade of Arnold, they call him a critic...
...Honolulu, a photograph was wrapped upon a glass tube. Within the tube was an electric light. Without was a photosensitive apparatus. The wrapped tube revolved slowly and the photosensitive apparatus translated light and shade into dots and dashes on a telegraph...
...pigments possess the property of becoming more visible when exposed to the invisible infra-red rays of the spectrum. This fact was utilized for experiments in flash-signal communication that was invisible to any one but the receiver of a message. The receiver was equipped with a tinted shade for his field glasses similar to the shade used in the signal lamp. Application of this phenomenon to airplane camouflage, theatrical scenery and detection of forgeries was elaborated.?Dr. Robert W. Wood, Johns Hopkins University...
Instead they see adjustments of a shade...
...poisoned by open-mindedness? The principle is the thing, and the principle states boldly that America must be protected from foreign radicals. Beneficent councilors of state, acting on information secured through foreign agents, ascertain the exact color of the alien's political views, and if those views are a shade too pink, he shall not pass. Who does not shudder at the mere thought of an intelligent foreigner shaking hard-won American institutions with the rude blasts of his opinions...