Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Guns cracked, the green-and-yellow flag of Brazil fluttered in the warm November breeze, the burghers of Rio de Janeiro lifted many a frosty glass to the traditional boast-toast: "God is a Brazilian...
...yellow-belly, Potter accepted-on one condition: Barton must turn critic and review the performance...
...astronomers at Harvard's observatory in South Africa, of two new, far-off super-galaxies, each of which is about 1,000,000 light-years in diameter (one light-year equals approximately six trillion miles). Another discovery, nearer home, concerned the Cepheid variables-a class of stars, mostly yellow supergiants, which fluctuate regularly in brightness. The Harvardmen noticed that in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a neighbor galaxy to the Milky Way, the bigger Cepheids were mostly concentrated toward the centre of the galaxy. This may mean that they were brought there by the operation of galactic gravity over...
...Sunday, in St. Peter's, Pius XII gave practical proof of his views on racism. He consecrated a dozen white, black, yellow and brown bishops and vicars apostolic,* for services in Africa and the Orient. One vicar apostolic, Monsignor Joseph Kiwanuka of Uganda, was the Church's first consecrated Negro since 1875 (when a Negro was bishop of Portland, Me.). The others: a Chinese, a Madagascarian, an Indian, two Americans, six Europeans...
...against the call of bearing war drums for American involvement in this European war also deserves great credit for bravery. Just in the past year or so has America for given those who stood against entry into the last war. Here and there a professor who was flared as "yellow" or a "traitor" between 1916-1918 is now being rehired. In the last year or so a great university has sent a widow the check for the last salary of a professor fired because he did not support the American involvement in the last European war. Most objectors, however, were...