Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first-class Navy." At Port Washington, L. I., Lieutenant Frank H. Conant* sped to an unofficial world's seaplane record (251.5 miles per hour). At Lakehurst, N. J., thousands touched the silvery hide of the dirigible Los Angeles and said, "Gee!" In Honolulu and Shanghai, brown-skinned and yellow-skinned populace looked at brawny necks emerging from glistening white U. S. uniforms. . . . Navy Day was no myth...
Dark clouded the Yellow Sea. Long swaying fingers pointed skyward-masts. Aboard the Japanese flagship Mikasa the captains of the fleet faced their admiral across a lacquer tray containing the instruments used in committing harakiri...
...music" Conductor Stokowski had made his men invisible, with only steady little stars on their music stands. Obliged, nevertheless, to retain his own visibility, he had arranged for a spotlight directly over his head. This was what disconcerted, for it was no modest white spotlight, but a refulgent yellow sun. It shed a mighty and beatific radiance upon the waving Stokowski mane, which, grizzled by daylight, became golden, heavenly, divine. It almost seemed to Manhattan critics that M. Stokowski, in his desire to hide his orchestra for the music's sake, had inadvertently made himself a cynosure...
Acetylene gas in a sealed tube was reduced to a surprisingly large quantity of yellow powder, resembling varnish, which resisted all chemical reagents and a heat of 4000°. The powder was a substance utterly unknown to chemists. Precipitated by the ray upon an aluminum disc, the powder became an enamel which could not be removed...
...Yellow-A good melodrama that was almost better...