Word: rainbow
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Then rainbow hues in fair refulgence stand...
Flashing a rainbow light...
...University suggests the question whether the paper which bears the name of the discarded hue will cling to, or renounce, that name. Before our next issue that question will probably have been decided, and the result of the decision will be announced. But, under whatever color of the rainbow Harvard takes her stand, the Magenta, whatever may be its name, will devote itself to the good of the College, and hurrah for the color it wears...
Rich and luxurious bindings have been prized from early times, but to attempt cheap imitations by cloth covers emblazoned with all the colors of the rainbow, as is done especially in some recent editions of the poets, is enough to blackball them against admittance into the libraries of persons of taste. Better the old-fashioned, sober, hog-skin cover than the flash and flimsy bindings of some of our modern books...