Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short woman in a faded print dress who had buttonholed me on the steps of the State House. She had a florid complexion and staccato manner of speaking. Waving a sheet of yellow paper in my face, she introduced herself as Mary Keith Norton...
...Kuiper is sure that Venus' bands are due to rising or falling currents in its carbon-dioxide atmosphere. His theory is that where the currents are moving upward (as they do in the earth's doldrums), the fine yellow dust that forms the clouds of Venus is carried high. Where the currents move downward, the dust deck is lower, and above it lies a greater thickness of carbon dioxide. The CO2 reflects violet light better than the dust does, and this makes the down-current zones photograph brighter than the others. In light of longer wave length...
...whole, Dr. Kuiper concluded, the meteorology of waterless Venus must be rather simple. There are no ocean basins to complicate the circulation of the dusty carbon-dioxide winds. The yellow dust merely drifts along; it does not condense unpredictably and fall as capricious rain to confound meteorologists...
...rush; it can either develop under government control or through imaginative private investment. "Is such a spirit lacking in the U.S.?" he asked. "I don't think so." Added Lleras Camargo: U.S. capital cannot let the chance get away by waiting for insurance against "loss, risks and yellow fever...
...suggests to him that the Greeks may have sailed into the Atlantic by 1400 B.C. The giant Atlas, who gave Hercules such a timely hand, may have been "the gigantic snow-capped Peak of Teneriffe on the Canary Islands," and the apples the hero plucked were perhaps the golden-yellow fruit of the Canary strawberry tree. Though Author Herrmann considers it only "possible" that America was reached even before Leif Ericson's 11th century voyage to Vinland, his stimulating and well-balanced chronicle of heroism, curiosity and restless greed leaves the reader with the feeling that such a feat...