Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...therefore, contracted from transfusions or from improperly sterilized needles used in taking blood samples. One famed exceptional outbreak: 33,000 cases in the Army in 1942 from a yellow-fever vaccine containing human serum...
Taking plain and colored glass in turn. Dr. Miles lists their effects. If ordinary daytime vision is 20/20, then visual acuity at night, through clear glass, is cut to 20/32. A popular "night glass" of light yellow reduces visual acuity only to 20/34. But Dr. Miles found that a second popular shade, pink, cut visual acuity to 20/40. Finally, a green windshield reduced nighttime acuity to 20/46, but in combination with the pink glasses, it slashed vision to a deadly 20/60...
...thread of this dry, dispassionate satire hangs on the question: Will the murderer be caught? He is, but that hardly matters. What does matter is Novelist Aymeé's picture of provincial life. It is the prototype of a stock cliche of French humor, and has begun to yellow a bit with age. Although expertly composed and amusing in spots, it is trivial and slightly out of focus...
...slid backward, gathering speed, as the band played and the crowd cheered and the yellow pennant on the conning tower fluttered gaily. The diminutive Rickover had to strain to get a look, when the Nautilus splashed into the icy Thames and floated away in flotsam from the launching cradle. As four tugs fumed up and nudged her toward a fitting-out dock, the Nautilus rode high in the water (her reactor and other heavy parts have not yet been installed). As she disappeared out of sight of the stands, the sun suddenly disappeared with her and the fog closed...
...20th century brought worse disturbances. A gasoline station, dance studios and a movie company took over space once occupied by bearded brush and chisel wielders. The worst blow came after World War II when a huge, jaundice-yellow garage appeared at one end of the famed old street. The Marguttiani organized a committee for the defense of their neighborhood, and last fall the Italian Ministry of Public Instruction halted further ravages by decreeing that Via Margutta is a "zone of notable public interest," in which no new buildings may be built or existing décor altered without government consent...