Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago has 15 cab companies, 5,000 cabs. Competition is sharp, service perhaps the best in the country (Chicago is the mother city of Yellow Cabs). But Chicago cabbies fare thinly, they are so many. Samuel Insull might, on his record, be expected to thin out the cabby ranks, profit fatly by organizing adroitly, eliminate some of the risk that exists when too many cabbies are speeding and dodging to glean a living...
...Beebe, submarine poet, also captured the demoiselle, a dainty fishlet which gradually changes its afternoon dress of bright yellow ? and blue to an evening dress of charcoal grey...
Whiskey Test. To the University of Cincinnati came 300 volunteers who drank good whiskey and then let their alcoholized breaths pass through a solution of 50% sulphuric acid containing a trace (1/3%) of potassium dichromate. This solution is ordinarily reddish yellow; alcohol vapor makes it change to a bluish green. The more whiskey the Cincinnati bibbers swallowed and the more drunk they became, the more bluish green became the solution. There is so definite a relation between degree of intoxication and the sulphuric acid-potassium dichromate tint, that Cincinnati judges have used its evidence in arrests for driving motor cars...
...Chaney). The young American starts the trouble by teaching the yellow maid (daughter of Mr. Wu) how to kiss. The young American's mother ends it by a vicious stab to Mr. Wu's innards...
...slides; a museum case which must be moth-proof and worm-proof; tents for a camp; lenses from Germany for a powerful telescope; a carefully-planned outfit for a South African expedition; a cushion for an instructor's office chair; fresh bottled-water for a thirsty professor; red and yellow chalk for the blackboards so plain that the students at the back of the room can see it; steel furniture for an anti-toxin laboratory; beakers, flasks, and evaporating dishes; 25 cases of books for the Sanskrit Department, printed in London and to be passed through the Custom House...