Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Handicapped by lack of reach and dapperling hands, Matsuyama came by his skill psychologically. He learned the game in Japan, where its finicky precision is enormously popular among a precise people. In Tokyo, before the last earthquake, there were 321 billiard halls full of grave little yellow men studying the motions of two white balls...
Anniversary. Five years ago last Sunday, Woodrow Wilson died. Last Sunday, at Washington Cathedral, arrived a single wreath of yellow jonquils, without a card...
...most advanced form of newspaper color printing today is color rotogravure, which is used in the Sunday supplements of the New York World, Chicago Tribune, Syracuse Herald, Buffalo Times, Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, Omaha World-Herald. This process requires five cylinders: two for rotogravure, three for red, yellow, blue...
Little Domini Lawrence is the daughter of widowed Hon. Mrs. Clive Lawrence who was married to the Lord High Chancellor, himself a widower. Little Domini came to the wedding dressed all in primrose yellow, with a primrose yellow hat edged with white fur. Awed by the sombre splendor of the great chapel?where Knights of the Bath worship?Little Domini sat mouse quiet as long as she could. Suddenly it seemed to occur to her that so much pomp deserved at least one question...
...took from his pocket several tubes which contained small yellow grains of crystal-like appearance, but which he explained as amorphous forms of the dried venom, which is an albuminous substance, whose chemical composition is about five to 12 times as complex as the tetanus toxin. These dried venoms, he explained, are sent to the central institute, are dissolved in brine and glycerine and the solution is injected into horses in successive increments. The reaction of this poison with the cells of the horse produces antibodies. After a lapse of time the horse is bled and the serum proteins...