Word: tinting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were given to understand that the jade in China came principally from Burma, India and that none was found in China but was sent there because the Chinese are expert carvery and know its worth. It was classified to us as follows: violet-tinted white, some slightly amber tint, white (pure), apple (light) green, darker shades of green, muddy (yellowish) white, etc. A common test is extreme hardness and its coldness to touch regardless of weather...
There is a decided tint of Pan drawn by Gilbert K. Chesterton in an interview which the visiting lecturer granted the Yale News. Mr. Chesterton feels that the youth of America matures too quickly. He bemoans the fact that when an undergraduate is about to leave college he has experienced almost everything. In contrast the closer ties between the authorities and the students, the "domestic college life", of English universities Hends to keep the undergraduates of Oxford and Cambridge young...
Fact: The U. S. Pharmacopoeia, law for the Food, Drug & Insecticide Administration, prescribes that one pound of crude ergot be used to make one pint of fluid extract of ergot which when injected into a white leghorn rooster will tint its comb bluish. Spanish ergot satisfies the formula. Russian ergot as imported into the U. S. docs not. Drug manufacturers have been cleaning Russian ergot of its contaminations and using two pounds of it to make a pint of extract. This Russian extract colors the cock's comb as does the Spanish...
Harvard has her share of reds--of all shades from a pinkish tint to a dark blood-red--and Harvard is rather fond of them in a very mild sort of way. They add to the variety of the college scene. The extreme radicals, with their clowning, are frequently amusing; while the more moderate radicals are usually more wide-awake, better-informed, and more stimulating company than their less liberal fellows. Progressives are a valuable, even necessary accessory of a community...