Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yellow Glare. At 18 the heiress to the throne came of age, imperially, ready to assume the Crown if her father died. As a private person she would not come of age for three years. The question of her official debut could be put off no longer, and in 1943 the wartime Princess was officially introduced to her people in the vivid, yellow glare of the blast furnaces in a Welsh tin-plate mill. Miners, factory girls, housewives and dock hands turned out by the thousands to cheer her on a two-day tour. Denied the privilege of hailing...
...better of the two (painted in February 1946), is a melancholy landscape against a grey-green, threatening sky. One artist complained that the windmill in the painting looked "pasted on." Twin Isles, a British Columbia scene, is a splashy oil of a stretch of forest full of color-yellow, blue, and red flowers, iridescent water and a yellow sky. One professional artist, appraising the lavish use of color, said dryly that the G.G. "must get a great deal of pleasure out of painting...
...first thing Bob Wegner did was to repaint the drab classrooms green, blue and yellow, because he said the soft pastels helped students to think better. Wegner also added music, art, commercial courses, home economics and industrial arts to the study program, introduced self-government in the classrooms. At Los Alamos, teacher and students sit in a semicircle, with one of the students acting as "chairman" of the classroom discussion (it's less autocratic, Wegner says, than to have the teacher out in front "dictating" to his class...
...this point the commodity is hawked up and down the aisles, with moderate success. Then cones the piece de resistance. A small yellow box is held up. "This carton I have here contains a new product of the Toe-Main Company, never before put on the market. Nossir, folks, you can't get this on the outside. Of course the candy alone is worth the fifty cents we are asking; but, in addition as a special introductory offer, the Toe-Main Company has placed a generous gift in each and every box. They include: a Remington electric shaver, a twelve...
Died. Dr. Paul Mazzuri, 82, associate of Walter Reed in the 1900 Cuban experiments that isolated the yellow fever carrier; in New Orleans. As physician to volunteers who submitted to infection, Dr. Mazzuri succeeded in pulling all twelve patients through with a treatment of champagne, strong purgatives, sponge baths, quiet...