Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the "China incident," as the Japanese call the two-year-old war in China (see p.29) developed into more than a matter of yellow man killing yellow man. At the port of Tientsin, gateway to Peking and one of the first cities to fall to the Japanese, Japanese soldiers surrounded and blockaded an old British commercial colony. In that action the Japanese Empire not only came close to waging a bloodless war with the British Empire but again served dramatic notice that in her "holy mission" of building up a "new order" in Asia the entire West...
...Halifax Harbor, after four last slow days in Quebec and the wooded Maritime Provinces, Their Majesties King George and Queen Elizabeth last week wound up their month-long American tour, went aboard the white-sided, yellow-funneled Empress of Britain and headed homeward...
...usually has a luncheon date, to make a speech, receive a medal or talk politics with somebody. After lunch she reads some more, paces around her apartment, with a pencil and a pad of yellow paper in her hand, and generally gets curious about something and starts telephoning people. She runs up tremendous telephone bills calling Washington and London. At teatime people start dropping in: friends, ex perts and refugees. She almost always goes out to dinner, or has a flock of people to her apartment. She seldom talks anything but world affairs and seldom stops talking them. Her husband...
Among the diseases traced to viruses are infantile paralysis, yellow fever, influenza, small pox, measles, palltacosis, encephalitis, distemper, and rabics. Medical scientists regard the study of viruses as ranking in importance with that of bacteriology, and the rapid development of knowledge in this field since 1920 as one of the most brilliant advances in the history of medical research...
From the tortuous, terraced streets of Chungking, frightened Chinese saw doom in the blood-red discs on the under side of raiders' wings before ever a Japanese bomb had been dropped. The people of Madrid and Barcelona learned to duck whenever they saw the red-&-yellow wing insignia of Nationalist ships overhead. Fighting tribesmen in Palestine know they must take to cover whenever attack planes sweep down on them with the blue-white-&-red wing targets of Great Britain...