Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...factory, swept a big church flat as a card house, ripped through houses, garages. It flooded streets, visited three neighboring towns in its line, then rushed out over the Atlantic. The same evening- On Long Island, along the south shore, the populace marveled at huge bars of blue and yellow light rocketing through the sky-a violent freak electric storm. A little later- At Sea Cliff, on the north shore, grey Long Island Sound suddenly delivered out of its flat bosom a towering column of water that raced ashore with terrific impact, spinning up trees by their roots, cottages...
...saloon. The little glasses at their elbows were empty, and a third man, standing over them, asked blandly for a new round of drinks, and took his place at the table. After a whispered conference the bartender was called over. Money changed hands-to each of the ruffians a yellow bill, to the bartender a large wad. And next evening, on a coal barge, or in some lot at the edge of town, the two ruffians met and battered each other with bare fists until one of them fell down. To the man left standing the bartender handed...
...Field's medical confreres were vexed at his publicity. The explanation: radium activates chemical processes that would otherwise occur very slowly if at all. Chemicals coloring the hard carbon-crystals of diamond are oxidized by radium in salts or even weak solutions. Cost ratio: a $100 yellow stone (½ karat) was changed to a $700 blue-white stone in four days, using $8,000 worth (100 milligrams) of radium. The less radium, the longer the time necessary. A difficulty: for speediest effects, the gems, and hands of the experimenters, must be directly exposed to the radium, risking burns...
...reversion or diminution of the change in twelve years thereafter. U. S. chemists have since corrobated the green effect in radiumized diamonds. Dr. Field is first to announce a blue-white effect. Other experiments with radium have turned pink synthetic sapphires red or orange; a white sapphire yellow; blue sapphires gray or brownish green; a colorless topaz to amber's color...
...turned that penny arcade into 350 theatres. "A Loew House in Every Town," his employes proudly proclaim - and the boast is true, or very nearly. Every evening, as twilight blows westward across the continent, the light of countless theatrical facades prick out his name in lights like little yellow dollars. "Loew" they twinkle, "Loew" they wink; they seem to be calling him, and for a while Marcus Loew responded by dashing perpetually from one to another. Then, tired of Pullman cars, he bought, for a million dol lars, the Long Island palace of the late and notorious Captain...