Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...closed his eyes and still saw a river, another river which looped almost directly beneath him as he lay at the rim of the valley and gazed a dizzy thousand feet down a sheer granite cliff. This river was also slow and gently, meandering through meadows which were solid yellow from their cloaks of mountain daisies. But it was the quiet of a river which is battered and exhausted from the reckless rush through a steep gorge where it has been cut to snowy foam against the chaotic jumble of jagged boulders, where it has hurtled over precipices...
Evidently taking a liking to the new spectrum yellow ball used for the first time on Soldier Field, Northeastern pounded out 18 base-knocks yesterday afternoon to best the Crimson nine...
Meanwhile the Russian Bear has awakened to the Yellow Peril and massed defences along the Manchurian border. In addition to "Siberia's life-line," double tracked railway across the barrens, a second road has been constructed 200 miles further from the border. The Russian army has 400,000 men in the East, as well as 1500 planes within flying distance of Japan's industrial cities. Caches of Munitions and food are also ready for the Soviets...
...Major Cunningham's Lincoln, the party purred past the Alexandria home of John L. Lewis, through the plant grounds, and back to Washington's swank Shoreham hotel, where Mr. Ford was lodged at $16 for the day in a two-room suite done in modernistic grey and yellow...
...white stallions, a gift from the Hungarian Government, drove through the mud-caked streets to the Royal Palace. Protected by a bodyguard of 1 ,000 soldiers, King Zog received his bride-to-be, escorted her into the library, where his prized collection of antique firearms covers the green and yellow walls. There Heqmet Delvina, vice president of the Parliament, united the couple in a simple civil ceremony, since Zog is a Moslem, his new Queen a Catholic...