Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Back over the tail lie New York and its satellites like a giant Christmas tree blown to the ground, with the lights still burning. Heavy yellow lines mark the trunk and main branches tapering off to isolated pinpoints that try to hold the tip designs, as if the decorators ran short of bulbs...
...Good morning, 1937! I have seen many sunrises from above, but this is a fresh one. All kinds of color schemes are here, for the first of the newest day. The upper rim of this blazing sun is gold and yellow, right from the start. The air is crystal clear. Am I imagining? Maybe. Maybe not. Altitude does funny things to people. Some laugh foolishly. Some get cracky, with as little reason. What does it do to me? I don't know. My mind is inside itself and can't see its image without some kind...
Wonder if their faces match the color of those tired-looking yellow lights? ... A long climbing turn, the propeller set back to low pitch. Down goes the landing gear. The plane lands on the runway as lightly as the wings of the morning...
...East Orange, Vt., New Year's Eve celebrants stripped Marvin Follansbee, 27, cut off his hair, painted him with red and yellow stripes. Next morning the coroner did not know whether Follansbee's death was caused by the alcohol in his brain or the paint in his pores...
Garbed in his habitual gabardine slacks and yellow turtle-neck sweater, the stage and screen star was the true feminine counterpart of the Harvardian's idea of dressing for comfort. Despite constant interruptions from the horde of autograph-seekers and hangers-on around her dressing-room, she shot back alert replies, seemed to enjoy her only exclusive interview during her brief Hub visit...