Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aeolus, bound for Bermuda. After 60 miles it turned back with trouble in the air-cooling system. Same evening the Zephir shot away, uneventfully buzzed the 2,390 miles to Pan American's Long Island base at Manhasset Bay. With four men aboard, the silver and yellow flying boat covered the route in 22 hours, using Pan American's radio as a guidepost. Shrugged Ruddy Captain Joachim Blankenburg: "A routine flight . . . an everyday event. I am glad to say, however, that we had about everything the ocean could offer in the way of weather...
Forty-eight banners are striped crimson and white and carry the Harvard Arms at the top, representing the University as a whole. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has two long gonfalons, striped blue and yellow, with the Massachusetts Arms...
...yellow ribbon designates the Physical Sciences, a green ribbon for the Biological Sciences, a blue ribbon for the Social Sciences, a gray ribbon for the Humanities, and a red ribbon for the Governing Board of the University and miscellaneous...
...many U. S. doctors felt sure that cinchophen was primarily responsible for many deaths directly due to yellow atrophy of the liver. This matter was thrashed out last May during the convention of the American Medical Association. There Drs. Walter Lincoln Palmer and Paul Silas Woodall presented conclusive evidence that, although cinchophen does not poison all users, there is no way of telling whose liver it may attack or when it begins its deadly work. Said their report, released last week: "The very earliest symptoms may be only a signal, already too late, that the steady march of death...
About 300 stars in the sky are known as Cepheid variables. Some internal pulse causes them to vary in brightness, in cycles of a few days or a few weeks. Most of them are hot, yellow, supergiants. Harlow Shapley at Mount Wilson worked out a relation between their luminosities and variation periods which yielded clues to shape and dimensions of the whole Milky Way (TIME, July 29, 1935). Last week Dr. Shapley, now director of Harvard Observatory, described the first known star to become a Cepheid while under observation. Ten years ago it began to pulse every two weeks...