Word: shading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Golden Miller, last year spent $200,000 for brood mares at the Newmarket sale. Two years before she had bought Golden Miller, who had brought only $500 as a yearling and had been resold four times since, for about $30,000. That her racing colors contain the same shade of blue as that of the foremost U. S. racing family, the Whitneys, is appropriate. Dorothy Paget's father. Lord Queenborough, met her mother, Pauline Whitney, when he had a ranch in the U. S. Pauline Whitney's father, William Collins Whitney, was Secretary of the Navy under President...
...Negroes, all stained the same shade of brown, were natural and earnest. A handsome buck in evening clothes and a girl who might have been a Cotton Club entertainer, acted as end men, called out the scenes and acts and whatever comments Gertrude Stein had chosen to make. There were two Saint Thereses, called Saint Therese I and Saint Therese II. They both wore flowing cardinal costumes, appeared to have the same identity, except that one was a soprano, the other a contralto...
...that business practically stands still during the finals of the annual tournament of 800 high schools. The crack shot is Norman Cottom, a sandy-haired forward who has scored 63 points in six games and bids strong to finish as high scorer of the Conference. Best player, by a shade, and the steadying influence of the team is his running mate, Ray Eddy. Purdue does not worry much if its opponents make points, so long as they do not make too many. Hence, the Purdue style is for the whole team to break fast, rush down the floor at once...
...with the Green International, an organized anti-war group claiming 2,000 members in the U. S., 1,500 abroad. Its adherents wear green shirts. Originally a green blouse which looked Russian and was inconvenient for street wear, the shirt is now of standard cut in a special olive shade...
...estimate these revenues it was necessary to guess at the state of business. His guesses (technically based on the Federal Reserve Board's index of industrial production) : business in fiscal 1934 to average approximately the same as business in 1931, business in fiscal 1935 to average just a shade better than business in 1930. His estimates of revenue did not include about $50,000,000 which may be added if the Federal liquor tax is raised to $2 a gallon (see p. 15), nor about $150,000,000 which may be raised by plugging holes in the income...