Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dressed. Says he: "I think there is no more beautiful place in the world than a green golf course . . . and I want to dress for it." He has a gypsy's taste in colors. He has his sport clothes made to order-in electric blue, bottle green, canary yellow and vermilion-by a Fifth...
...Named for the Army's late Surgeon General William Crawford Gorgas, whose medical battle against yellow fever in the jungle made possible the building of the Panama Canal. *Who is not unsung. His name lives in the U.S. Army's Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco's Presidio...
...over the U.S. last week scientists were hunting mice. The search was on for brown mice, white mice, yellow mice, mice with hairless skins and mice with peculiar, deformed tails. The leading U.S. mouse pool had been destroyed...
...gutted by forest fire three weeks ago (TIME, Nov. 3), some 90,000 pedigreed breeding mice were caught in the flames. They represented 30 carefully bred strains, each with special qualities. Some were valuable because they were susceptible to polio, others were prone to nervous crises. Certain yellow mice (which grow fat with age) were used in the study of fatty (liposarcoma) cancers. Certain long-cherished strains were used in educational institutions all over the country to illustrate the Mendelian laws of inheritance...
After the blackened buildings cooled, Director Clarence Cook Little walked sadly among the cages of roasted or suffocated mice. A few "little fellows" looked up with frightened eyes, among them two elderly, fat yellow mice. But survivors were few. Out of the 90,000, only 55 were alive...