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Word: yellowing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play in which a half-naked yellow girl employed all her sex resources to get a white man into her grip. (The Half-Caste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Arraigment | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

...statement by Lawyer Howland S. England of Detroit was also published, indicating that the experiments would follow the ideas of Anthropologist F. G. Cruikshank* of London. The latter's researches have convinced him that offspring capable of reproducing themselves can be obtained by crossing orangoutangs with the yellow race, gorillas with the black race and chimpanzees with the white race, the theory being that the divisions of the anthropoid and human races pair off thus most closely as kindred types...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Men and Apes | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

...Vincent, preparing to print his 1925 report, briefs the Foundation's activities: 1) Hookworm-aided 18 governments, treated nearly 1,500,000 victims, erected or rebuilt thousands of latrines. 2) Rural health-aided 220 U. S. counties, 18 districts in Brazil, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria and France. 3) Yellow Fever-eliminated it through both Americas (only three cases in the year). 4) Malaria-proved that paris green prevents breeding of malaria-carrying mosquitoes. 5) Medical Education-gave money to U. S. universities or schools at Toronto, London, Copenhagen, Prague, Warsaw, Belgrade, Zagreb, Budapest, Trinidad, Sao Paolo, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Brussels, Utrecht...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rockfeller Foundation | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...many cases of yellow fever occurred in both Americas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz: Jun. 21, 1926 | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...eleventh night the Captain heard the thud of paws, flashed his electric torch on a black and yellow Presence with jewel eyes that leaped out of the forest upon the goat's back. His rifle roared; he knew that his aim had been true, but when he sprang forward to look he found the goat lying dead in a pool of blood with the marks of incredible claws in his back. There was nothing else, no dead marauder. The captain turned upon his gunbearer a face in which horror whitely flickered. Could it be?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Leopard | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

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