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was and multi-colored
When the light from a heated material was passed through a prism, it produced a multi-colored spectrum.
A later change was the addition of an electrically controlled clamp to hold the pens, which allowed them to be changed, and thus create multi-colored output.
One of the first uses of Chromolithography, a way of making multi-colored prints, in a children's book was Struwwelpeter, published in Germany in 1845.
In Senegal, the Baye Fall, followers of the Mouride movement, a sect of Islam indigenous to the country which was founded in 1887 by Shaykh Aamadu Bàmba Mbàkke, are famous for growing locks and wearing multi-colored gowns.
The band's image was part of its success, and they became known for their shaved heads and multi-colored body painting, done to represent traditional Beti scarification, as well as torn t-shirts that implied a common folkness in contrast to the well-styled pop-makossa performers of the period.
Limited color was supported using a crude planar model, allowing QuickDraw to drive some types of dot-matrix printer that used multi-colored ribbons, but very few applications supported this feature.
At Münchringen, the grave pottery was both shaped by hand or thrown on a potter's wheel, and was painted with multi-colored ornamentation.
As an official, Mikan is also directly responsible for the ABA three-point line, which was later adopted by the NBA, the multi-colored ABA ball, which still lives on as the " money ball " in the NBA All-Star Three Point Shootout, and the existence of the Minnesota Timberwolves.
More recently the black leather seats were replaced with vandalism-proof cloth seats containing multi-colored patterns, as was done with the other Red Line rolling stock still in use.
In the large plaza area at the entrance of the building is a multi-colored sculpture entitled " Personage with Birds ", which was designed by painter and sculptor Joan Miró, and which was installed in the plaza in early 1982.
The soundtrack album was intended to be released on multi-colored vinyl, but problems with the process prevented it
In 2010, MuchMusic began to use the new simplistic and multi-colored logo on the station's promos, however the older logo used on-air did not change until April 1, 2011, when MuchMusic was officially relaunched with a new look consisting with a new simpler multi-coloured logo ; this change coincided with the completion of Bell Canada's acquisition of CTVglobemedia with the company being renamed Bell Media.
The logo of the former JDS Uniphase was an open multi-colored box, intended to evoke a feeling of thinking " outside the box " among employees.
Some of the original charm was lost, as the multi-colored clerestory windows around the center court had replaced by colorless glass.
Stronghold was the last set in which multi-colored cards appeared until the 2000 expansion Invasion.
Although named Mega Man, the multi-colored figures were actually inspired by the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the 1993 children's action series which was still popular at the time of the episode's original broadcast.
The facility logo ( right ), which features a multi-colored, abstracted kaleidoscope image, was designed by Raymond Loewy's firm Loewy / Snaith of New York.
The intent was to mimick drug usage in the hippie culture, primarily through the toy syringe being a reminder of heroin, and secondarily through the multi-colored candy being a reminder of uppers and downers.
This memorial was adorned with strings of flowers and brightened by multi-colored bulbs and neon tubes.
was a powerful land used in many multi-colored decks, only reprinted once in Shadowmoor.
At the entrance, there was a multi-colored stained glass sign with the word restaurant on it.

was and graceful
Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.
Her hair was a very pretty light brown, and fell on her neck in graceful curls.
There was great interest in graceful poetry and vernacular literature.
At the time of her wedding, Isabella was said to have been pretty, slim, graceful and well-dressed.
The main terminal was designed in 1958 by famed Finnish architect Eero Saarinen and it is highly regarded for its graceful beauty, suggestive of flight.
Although he was initially buried at Hayes, with graceful unanimity all parties combined to show their sense of the national loss and the Commons presented an address to the king praying that the deceased statesman might be buried with the honours of a public funeral.
Rococo architecture, as mentioned above, was a lighter, more graceful, yet also more elaborate version of Baroque architecture, which was ornate and austere.
The American historian Retha M. Warnicke writes that Anne was " the perfect woman courtier ... her carriage was graceful and her French clothes were pleasing and stylish ; she danced with ease, had a pleasant singing voice, played the lute and several other musical instruments well, and spoke French fluently ... A remarkable, intelligent, quick-witted young noblewoman ... that first drew people into conversation with her and then amused and entertained them.
At the period when it was most fashionable it was controlled, ceremonious and graceful.
She had an " exquisite " poise and a famously graceful deportment ; Horace Walpole once quoted Virgil as to her gait, saying, " vera incessu patuit dea " ( she was in truth revealed to be a goddess by her step ).
Physically Constantine was tall and graceful, where Basil had been short and stocky.
The core of the school ( which contains School House, featured in Tom Brown's Schooldays ) was completed in 1815 and is built around the Old Quad ( quadrangle ), with its fine and graceful Georgian architecture.
An observer commented that Calhoun was " the most elegant speaker that sits in the House ... His gestures are easy and graceful, his manner forcible, and language elegant ; but above all, he confines himself closely to the subject, which he always understands, and enlightens everyone within hearing ; having said all that a statesman should say, he is done.
The de Milo statue was praised dutifully by many artists and critics as the epitome of graceful female beauty, however, Pierre-Auguste Renoir was among its detractors, labeling it a " big gendarme ".
Bonetti was known for his safe handling, lightning reflexes and his graceful style, for which he was given the nickname, " The Cat ".
Eliza obviously made an impression on her teachers, as a Mr Grant, who taught art at the little school, was later to recall her as " an elegant and graceful child.
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late Forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way — a vision gleaned from the way we had heard the word " beat " spoken on street corners on Times Square and in the Village, in other cities in the downtown city night of postwar America — beat, meaning down and out but full of intense conviction.
In general, Gaultier was a masterful melodist, effortlessly writing graceful melodic lines with clear phrase structures, but his music is less inventive harmonically than that of some other French lutenists of the era, such as René Mesangeau or Pierre Dubut.

was and lay
Was it not possible, after all, that the forest was in league with her and her child that its sympathy lay with the Culvers that she had erred in failing to understand this??
From high in the tree, the whole block lay within range of the eye, but the ground was almost nowhere visible.
One day he assigned me to lay bare a `` plot '' by the Duponts to supply munitions to a wholly fictitious revolution he said was about to occur in Cuba.
Even so, Edward's ambassadors can scarcely have foreseen that five years of unremitting work lay ahead of them before peace was finally made and that when it did come the countless embassies that left England for Rome during that period had very little to do with it.
When Blackman emerged from the bedroom, everyone was gone except the tolerant Lord Thomson, who stayed and chatted with him for half an hour, and then Blackman lay awake most of that night, despairing of what he must expect on the Continent.
It was a pity because she had planned to lay a wreath at the foot of the Garibaldi statue, towering over Rome in spectacular benediction from the highpoint of the Gianicolo.
All that the English lady wanted to do was to walk up to the monument and lay a wreath at its base.
The danger lay in the American delusion that nuclear deterrence was enough.
Inside, carefully packed in straw, were six eggs, but the eye of a poultry psychologist was required to detect what scientifically valuable specimentalia lay inside ; ;
The word marina was coined by NAEBM originally to describe a waterfront facility where recreational boats could find protection and basic needs to lay over in relative comfort.
At one point in the game when the skinny old man in suspenders who was acting as umpire got in the way of a thrown ball and took it painfully in the kidneys, he lay there unattended while players and spectators wrangled over whether the ball was `` dead '' or the base runners were free to score.
Their territory lay to the north, near the sources of the Alabama, the Tombigbee, the Tennessee, and Cumberland rivers, and was easily accessible to traders among the near-by Cherokees.
the unknown was so much worse than -- what dangers lay ahead for her??
He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered.
Something in the back of his mind was aware that the magnificence of the plan lay in his faith, that the idea would work because he believed in it, since his courage and virility were involved, because it was truly his.
They lay months away from the nearest Earth star by jump drive, and no one knew what they were good for, although it was felt that they would probably be good for something if it could only be discovered -- much like the continent of Antarctica in ancient history.
The bunk he lay on was much more uncomfortable than the acceleration couches on board.
He rammed his mind into focus and said to the two ladies who lay pinkly nude beside him in the desert, `` That was a good bite.
The lay abbot took his recognized rank in the feudal hierarchy, and was free to dispose of his fief as in the case of any other.
One of the few Inca sites the Spanish never found in their conquest was Machu Picchu, which lay hidden on a peak on the eastern edge of the Andes where they descend to the Amazon.
Once he was firmly established in the Northern March, Albert's covetous eye lay also on the thinly populated lands to the north and east.

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