Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...light from a very hot filament is colored yellow or white. The light from a filament which is not very hot is colored...
...didn't pull myself out of the gutter to waste my life on a drunk like you!" The drunk pulled himself out of the gutter in the last year of his life, and using the pencil stumps with which he preferred to write, feverishly covered sheets of yellow paper with what later be came The Last Tycoon. In that unfinished novel, Scott Fitzgerald put his own glowing version of his final romance-a version immensely more moving but also more idealized than Sheilah Graham's crude and curious respects to the author...
...style, but it is an edgy and uncomfortable sort of style. The Japanese maple in the courtyard looks as forlorn as a stray kitten at a board meeting. The 160 girl inhabitants occupy facing wings across the courtyard, with picture windows looking on each other's picture windows. Yellow curtains, which let in too much sun, are compulsory. The girls keep opening their windows, which throws the air conditioning out of whack, so that everybody is too hot or too cold. Walled and barred at street level, the Smith dormitory looks a good deal less hospitable from the outside...
Huxley's revisitation nevertheless is a fascinating intellectual exercise for those who like to think about the shape of things that have or might come. And sometimes Huxley still sounds like the brave young worldling who wrote Crome Yellow. Most original Huxleyism is a suggested law on the lines of habeas corpus, which would be a habeas mentem for the human race. Roughly translated it would mean the right for all to say: keep your dirty hands off my mind...
...breaking it into large chunks. He separated the fragments and labeled the amino acids on their ends by making them combine with a material called DNP (for dinitropheny). When he broke the fragments into smaller fragments, the amino acids that had been in the end positions were stained yellow with DNP. There are 51 amino acid units in insulin, a comparatively simple protein. But Sanger's patience and skill eventually found the place of each in the long chain. Then he reassembled the fragments and learned how the chain is folded over and locked together. At last...