Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nothing in TIME stands out in relief, because it all stands out, it is all raised to a high pitch, elevation-as if the whole round earth were a continuous, altitudinous tableland. TIME is so intense; no shading, no contrast-all scarlet red unrelieved by any restful, soft yellow or buff tints. It is like a rich full dinner with no salad or soup. To read TIME is to take an extended journey on the swift Twentieth Century Limited with no stops or layovers; no dimming of lights by night, nor shading the glowing sun by day. TIME thrills...
John Daniel Hertz of Chicago, who stirred up a new demand for motor cars by permitting people who rented his machines by the mile or hour to drive the machines themselves (Driv-ur-Self [TIME, June 21, 1926]) last week extended the idea to motor trucks. The Yellow Truck & Coach Mfg. Co., General Motors subsidiary which he heads, now rents one-ton trucks to people who need a light truck either occasionally or for some emergency. In Chicago the Driv-ur-Self truck rates are 22c to 25c a mile...
...cooperated with Brazil in the control of yellow fever, or in precautionary measures against the yellow fever mosquito, in ten states...
...continued yellow fever surveys and studies in Nigeria and on the Gold Coast...
...against Soviet. That isn't true. The story, it was simple-money I give to poor children in Vienna who belong to those outside of work. They starve. I have mooch money. I give them some. I don't care whether they are white, red, yellow or green. They were poor and hungry. "Then I take apartment in Paris. It is a custom of Russia to make a mass in new house, and I ask choristers to come and I sing. When I come to my apartment I find crowds of children outside. They come round me shouting...