Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yellow River front, their drive on Hankow halted, Japanese armies still waited for the flood waters of "China's Sorrow" to subside. South on the Yangtze River, the main naval drive upstream on Hankow received a temporary setback at Matang, where the Chinese had blocked the stream with a boom. Finally, aided by the rising river waters, a few vessels nosed across and at week's end had pushed their way to Pengtseh, some 175 miles from Hankow...
...from the flashy horse shows it tried to ape. No. 1 judge of the show, W. C. Overton, whose regular job is supervising the paddock at the Detroit racetrack, thought Joe Louis' form far inferior in the show ring to the prize ring, awarded him a third-place yellow ribbon in the five-gaited saddle class...
...Japanese Army, definitely balked in its advance along the Lunghai Railway by the muddy floodwaters of the Yellow River, last week saw its campaign to capture Hankow, operating headquarters of Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government, temporarily taken over by the Navy...
...Yellow Jack (Robert Montgomery, Lewis Stone, Henry Hull, Charles Coburn, Virginia Bruce; TIME...
...York Harbor last week and eased into quarantine, paced an authentic-looking Viking. He was Able Seaman Eugen Knutsen, burdened for a reception tableau with a shirt of mail and the weight of 938 years of Norse legend. At quarantine, Viking Knutsen received a visitor. She was Rosebud Yellow Robe, sprightly, college-bred great grandniece of Sitting Bull. Last week Rosebud mislaid her peace pipe but gave sheepish Leif a beaded tobacco pouch and the welcoming ceremony was over...