Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Overdressed with colored lights, to attract attention, a wind tee points to the West. There comes the wind! As we rush to meet it, the long yellow exhaust flame shortened and turned blue...
Some weeks ago after a batch of crossbred worms from France had begun to spin, the cocoons appeared in three different colors-white, golden yellow, near-beige. It was obvious to Lady Hart Dyke that mismating had occurred. With British doggedness she set out to trace the ancestry of the worms, to determine whether the production of the three colors could be continued and controlled along established genetic lines...
Next big job for able Arthur Brisbane was with fiery Joseph Pulitzer, whose World was astounding New Yorkers as the pioneer "yellow" newspaper. When William Randolph Hearst came out of the West to challenge Pulitzer with his rampant new Evening Journal, one of the first Pulitzer men he hired away was Brisbane, who had added 600,000 readers to the Sunday World by his inspired journalistic showmanship and ballyhoo. Appointed editor of the Journal in 1897, Brisbane swore he would drink no more claret till the Journal's, circulation could be compared with the World's high mark...
...Wild Bill" Hickok (Gary Cooper), famed scout, is detailed by General Custer to go after Yellow Hand (Paul Harvey), a Cheyenne chief who is leading his people on the warpath. At the same time Hickok's friend Bill Cody (James Ellison) rides to relieve a Federal garrison beleaguered by the Indians. Hickok's girl, Calamity Jane (Jean Arthur), can cut a man's hat off at 40 ft. with a mule-skinner's rawhide but cannot quite bear to watch Wild Bill roasted on a spit by the Cheyennes. Her disclosure under pressure of the trail...
...same reasoning, Drs. Walter Baade and Rudolf Minkowski of Mt. Wilson Observatory have come to quite a different conclusion as to the size of the particles in the vast dust cloud of the Orion Nebula. In this case the particles scatter the blue and yellow-green components of the light of stars in the cloud, letting only long infra-red rays filter through. Hence the stars appear much redder than normal. The wave lengths Baade & Minkowski recorded convinced them that the dust grains in the nebula were about .000004 inch in diameter...