Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yellow-bearded leader of the pioneers told reporters, "For a time it looked as if our expedition was going the way a lot of its unfortunate predecessors went. But it will take more than ten Indians to stop us. We're going to push...
Slime molds are among the most primitive of living things. Six years ago one of them, a golden yellow mold long known to botanists as Physarum polycephalum, was successfully cultured indoors by Dr. Frank Leslie Howard of Rhode Island State College. Later he turned his molds and his methods over to Dr. Seifriz. Ever since his student days at Johns Hopkins and in England, Germany, Switzerland and France, William Seifriz had hankered for generous supplies of "naked proto-plasm." Physarum polycephalum filled the bill. In a lyrical moment Dr. Seifriz called it a "great big glorious handful...
...Fastest reader ever tested, an 8-year-old high-school boy who evidently had an unusually large macula (a yellow spot in the retina, most sensitive point of vision), in one test read 2,202 words a minute with excellent comprehension...
...Knox who had precisely $11 left after he had paid the minister. By 1889 the thrifty Knoxes had saved $5,000, invested every cent of it in a tiny gelatine works at Johnstown, N. Y. Last week the 325 employes of the Knox gelatine works joined in presenting 80 yellow roses in a Tiffany vase to Rose Markward Knox as "a birthday remembrance and a token of love, loyalty and appreciation from her business family." This was no empty gesture, for Mrs. Knox, despite her 80 years, still runs Knox with the same vigorous skill that in 30 years...
...last half of the book is the socalled "yellow ribbon section." The quotations here are of a calibre far above the average. They often include a vast amount of information in a short space. A college thesis could be written from some of the entries here...