Word: paintings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Screaming "Fire! fire!", Newman ran toward the gangplank with his wife and others from the lounge. From the pier, they looked back. Within minutes, the 36-year-old ship, encrusted with innumerable coats of paint that burned almost Rke magnesium, was lighting the sky with flames...
...weeks before the scheduled game, martial law is declared on both campuses. Raiding parties can be expected any night. A concrete "C" in the Berkeley Hills usually gets a coat of cardinal red paint (Stanford's color), and numerous blue C's appear on the Farm. At Stanford, the defense of the college is turned over to the freshmen. Groups of these eager youths patrol the campus all night long. At any sign of danger, they ring the fire bell, the signal for the whole college to come to their aid. Both universities threaten expulsion for anyone caught defacing property...
...will have to come to the kitchen, because much of my time is spent there . . . If I am to create, and I believe God made me to do just that, why can't I create feast-day specials from eggs and milk and butter? . . . I once tried to paint a picture, but the colors ran and the perspective was poor. I tried to write music, but even the dog howled to hear it. I tried to weave a piece of cloth, but the warp broke and the wool tangled. So I have resolved to stick to my cooking...
Corn, soybeans, alfalfa, wheat, cattle and hogs-everything had "done fine." Buildings gleamed in a new coat of white paint. New cider and fruit packing houses, equipped with stainless steel tanks and refrigerating units, stood near the main house. There was a new $1,500 orchard duster and an elevator that hoisted corn from the wagons into the cribs...
...Paint One Blue. The next step is to estimate the distance by timing the round trip of an individual bee (a worker bee flies about 15 m.p.h,). To do this, one particular bee has to be marked. Hunter Edgell does it by selecting a bee which has worked its way into a cell of the comb and is relatively immune to outside distractions. Then he daubs its rear with blue paint (made from carpenter's chalk and water). On the next trip, the blue-bottomed bee stands out from its fellows...