Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After the heat of the day it was cooling to return to Mr. Lasker's low, rambling white stucco villa (with rose tile roof) and listen to the Atlantic tapping on the sandy front lawn. Next door, like a Miamese twin, was the house of John D. Hertz, Yellow Cab tycoon. Mr. Hertz has a twin-motored Sikorsky in which the Vice President was tempted to take...
...preaching proceeds, Fortune played pinochle with fat and red-haired Mrs. Lucy Gurget. Dressed in a red flannel petticoat, yellow blouse and beribboned bonnet with improbable cherries that rattled to her constant laughter, Mrs. Gurget "cooked" for Mr. Solomon Tinkle, basked on the deck of his boat...
...they contain germs caught from the hen or absorbed through the shell pores; 2) they lose water by evaporation through the shell, a condition which helps break down the membrane between yellow and white; 3) they are kept at a temperature too high, which causes chemical reactions, if not the formation of embryos; .4) most important and only newly discovered, the alkalinity of white and yolk has increased...
...Lagos. Nigeria, over a year ago, went Dr. Hideyo Noguchi and a party of scientists to study yellow fever there in behalf of the International Health Board...
Warm breezes drifted in from the nearby ocean. Hot air arose in the press. A mellow Florida moon lurked behind drifting clouds. Forty thousand men and women in a bowl of raw yellow pine-the Greeks knew how to do these things much better-looked not at the elusive moon but at a garish cone of artificial light in the bowl's bottom...