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Success Through Failure. He plowed his field the hard way. Wedgwood kept 10,000 of the trial pieces that preceded his perfection of jasper ware (a hard white semiporcelain which took a fine blue tint). His eventual success made possible the mass production of quality pottery. His experiments took pottery out of the luxury class-and made him a millionaire...
Last week Dayton had a shower of green rain. It stained a few citizens' clothes and left a greenish tint on some white-painted houses. The press reported that local scientists were mystified...
Collier's readers last week were given a pair of rosy-hued glasses through which to goggle at the progress and percentages of Boston's "Our Jim" Curley. But the tint wasn't applied heavily enough for one paragraph of Curleyana: that color should have been CRIMSON...
...Grey Mare. In Groton, N.Y., a farmer walked into a newspaper office, asked for a bottle of printer's ink to tint the eyebrows of his old horse...
...insincere Blot was a taunting the Jester, a new Jester without the tradition worship of the old masters. Light dawned in Ibis intellect: unwitting Lampy had bestowed the Eli sky-blue tint to creaking portals that shrieked their protest in hues of yellow. The bird groaned and returned to frustrated vigil...