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Word: yellowing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roof was plastered with the sopping petals of flowers thrown from balconies. At the waterside President Roosevelt stopped to shake hands with the Argentine chauffeur, who beamed from ear to ear at the unexpected honor. The crowd cheered filial devotion as Lieut. Colonel James Roosevelt buttoned a yellow slicker up around his father's neck. "Aprés vous," said the bilingual President of the U. S. to the President of Argentina, and followed him up the gangplank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Apotheosis | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...lapped the field in the last hour, held a point lead piled up earlier by winning the sprint that ended the race. While the crowd of 16,000 screamed themselves hoarse, Walthour & Crossley pedaled around the track once more, each balancing on his handlebars an enormous basket of yellow chrysanthemums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cycle Cycles | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...friend Marcus. Says Moe: "A full quarter of a carat but the dirtiest diamond I ever see. Nine dollars is the very positive limit." Marcus offers to trade the diamond for a tray of fountain pens, then balks because the pens appear to be ''too yellow." Moe says, "So are canary birds, but who's afraid of canary birds? Well?" The trade completed, Marcus remarks that the weather is ''darker than one of these here epileptic days," drifts on to trade the fountain pens to his friend Meyer Cohen. Offered a camera, Marcus declaims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Pawn Paper | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...long as possible, fearing to find Amai a fat, betel-nut-chewing grandmother. He lingered in Singapore, speculated about the British Empire and colonial service, the future of the East, revolution and the consequences of the cinema lowering white prestige before the yellow races. When at last he met Amai, with his friends waiting nearby and much of the native village looking on, he found her a grave, well-preserved, attentive woman who said politely that she had heard he was rich and successful. They exchanged formal comments about their careers, and the self-conscious traveler, feeling a little ridiculous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sentimental Journey | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...England eagerly seizes the extended yellow hand [of Japan] and cultivates an alliance which, from the racial point of view, is perhaps indefensible but whieh viewed from the national-political angle, offers the sole possibility of strengthening Britain's world position in the face of the ever more powerful American continent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Early Battle | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

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