Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...northward. The exhaustion of the cultivable land may have been one of the reasons. We are also ignorant as to the events which led up to the fall of this civilization about 1450. Civil war, the injurious effects of the presence of foreigners and in all probability epidemics of yellow fever were contributory...
...metropolitan press utterly fails to jibe with the taste of America's upper middle class, criticism and correction has been directed at journalism with a good deal more vehemence than effect. There have been many picturesque epithets applied to the newspapers. "The putrid press," "the pornographs," "the yellow dogs" are exemplary examples. For remedies, suppression and censoring have been the least acceptable although the most tangible and the most often called for. Plans for reform from within have emanated from educated and conservative quarters but have been lacking in provision for specific relief...
...Cuba, 'which he reached as Colonel of Rough Riders, General Wood was officially responsible for elimination of yellow fever. Even more to his credit, he taught the Cubans two entirely new ways of life ? sanitation, self-government. Typical of the esteem of his subjects was the occasion when he, a Puritan, was invited to assist at the elevation of a Cuban archbishop...
...cause people to glare at you, pretend to stare out the window and finally move away. Readers realizing that private mirth is a public nuisance will, unless malicious, arrange to meet Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge in some secluded spot. He is a rather large, angular young man with a napping yellow mackintosh, a piercing eye, a jumpy back collar-button and no economic roots in society save vigorous tendrils of loquacity with which he attaches, from dismayed friends, the trifling bits of capital necessary to promote such glittering projects as a trick-dog college; a serious-minded fistic behemoth; the abduction...
High Grade Whites. Dr. R. Bennett Bean of the University of Virginia, from a profound anatomical study of races, reported that the white races are advancing in superiority over the yellow and black; if not, the yellow and black are receding. He reached this finding after dividing humanity, irrespective of color, into high, medium and low types, then subdividing these grades according to color. Among the low, those with deficient mentality and bodies, stubby fingers, slanting foreheads and other stigmata, there were relatively few whites. Not so the black and yellow...