Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each girl entering the freshman class at Wellesley this fall received a yellow introductory booklet describing life at the College. An essential element of Wellesley seemed to be Harvard, the editors implied. They defined it as: "Not strictly a part of Wellesley. We share it with Radcliffe...
...Punch Revue, a collection of dry skits and songs which should leave even the most devout Anglophile gasping for more vermouth. The fraction of the show I understood was very funny, and Miss Binnie Hale's impressions of other actresses broke through the language barrier. With filmy dress and yellow sausage wig, Miss Hale succeeds in making even Marlene a little ludicrous...
...Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams came in with some papers for Ike to sign. For the second time in nine days, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles spent a 25-minute period at Ike's bedside. When Dulles arrived, Ike promptly ordered him to sign his "guest book": a yellow toy dog that he had received for his birthday. Then the two got down to the business at hand: last-minute strategy for the forthcoming foreign ministers' conference at Geneva...
...University of Washington, too, had trouble and almost criminated its single charity drive. Instead, however, it decided to try the drive again, this time employing strong social pressure to ensure campus-wide donations. Everyone who contributed proved his good standing by wearing a yellow and purple pin: pity the student who tried to buck that drive...
...serious scientific purpose: to help the Air Force's long-range study of the upper atmosphere. Part of the "air glow" (the faint glow of the night sky) comes from sodium atoms that absorb solar energy during the day. At night they give off this energy as yellow sodium light. Scientists do not know how high the "sodium layer" is. Nor do they know how the sodium got into the top of the atmosphere. Some think it came from outer space; others suspect that it originated as fine particles of sea salt that were carried upward...