Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Silent House-BOND THEFT LAID To YELLOW FIEND...
...desirably colored the next year, according to Herr Behr. The wood however can be immediately cut, polished, prepared for futuristic furniture and novelties. The dye brings out the grain, shows off the polish, lasts as long as the wood. For more conservative households beeches can turn to rosewood; yellow birches masquerade as mahogany...
...Yellow fever has been stamped out in the Americas; it still rages on the coast of West Africa. Ten years ago Dr. Hideyo...
Tsinan, the capital of Shantung province, was captured from the troops of Peking Dictator Chang Tso-Lin last week by the armies of the Nanking Nationalist Government. The Peking troops fled to positions on the northern bank of the Yellow River; but meanwhile the Nanking soldiers had become embroiled with Japanese troops who had come up from Tsing Tao to guard the Tsinan Japanese colony...
People in this country with their extensive fictional knowledge of the yellow people, have complacently left Chinese warfare to the chorus in comic opera. Attended as it is by mass starvation, wholesale looting, and peculiarly Oriental cruelty, the interminable struggle does not, of course, merit such classification, but as a theatrical spectacle, it does provide an interesting analogy to Europe's own rise from feudalism some five centuries ago. For the leaders of both sides are independent lords at the head of vassals whose patriotism is largely a monetary consideration...