Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since he was an Ohio farm boy studying textbooks as he plowed, Charles Franklin Kettering has wondered why grass is green. When the invention of motorcar self-starters and the vice-presidency of General Motors made him a millionaire, he gave $577,000 to Antioch College at Yellow Springs, Ohio, to find out. Last week he thought he almost knew the answer. Full of premonitions he took the scholar who was doing the investigating for him to Cleveland to address the National Academy of Sciences...
...Reporters were ushered into his hotel suite which had been prepared as a visual object lesson. In the centre of the room was a small table. On the table was a red plush Catalan liberty cap and a rocking chair. Balanced on the seat of the chair was a yellow shaded table lamp. There were also two six-foot loaves of French bread on the mantelpiece and a banner with a strange device: a white skull, a key, a leaf, a woman's slipper and the letters DALI...
...kind of junkman of the blood stream. It collects worn-out blood cells, breaks them up and sends the debris to the liver. Marvin Goodman's spleen, ten times oversize, destroyed his red blood cells with mad indiscrimination. As a result, he became anemic. His skin turned yellow, then green. His weight fell from 150 lb. to 90 lb. in six months. He obviously was dying of hemolytic jaundice...
...Jenkins appeared in flame-colored velvet, with yellow ringlets piled high on her head. For a starter she picked Brahms' Die Mainacht, subtitled on her gilt program as "O singer, if thou canst not dream, leave this song unsung." Mrs. Jenkins could dream if she could not sing. With her hands clasped to her heart she passed on to Vergebliches Standchen, which she had labeled "The Serenade in Vain...
...Some roads still operate a few of their own sleepers locally. Gulf, Mobile & Northern owns five; Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific, 25, all painted orange-yellow. Canadian National and Canadian Pacific own all their sleepers and parlor cars...