Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lesseps' conviction for fraud after bubonic plague, smallpox, malaria and yellow jack had decimated some 70,000 laborers, and $400,000,000 of his stockholders' money had gone down the drain...
...August 15, 1914-the end of eight years' struggle during which Dr. William Crawford Gorgas licked yellow fever and General George Washington Goethals' 50,000 ditch diggers licked 200,000,000 cubic yards of dirt and rock-the day the Panama Railroad's steamship Ancon made the first transit from Atlantic to Pacific...
...front page in the land. His expulsion from his post as TVA chairman by President Roosevelt brought the cry from New Hampshire's Senator Bridges, "This is an American Dreyfus case." But by last week most U. S. citizens had forgotten the tall, slant-jawed "Bald Eagle" of Yellow Springs, Ohio, were surprised to learn he was still in there fighting...
...Asia; what is new is the reason for it. In 1927 China was becoming a unified nation for the first time in its 5,000-year history. A young General named Chiang Kaishek, though still hardly more than an ambitious warlord, was beginning to make his people realize that yellow skin was not necessarily synonymous with low estate. The Russians, to promote world revolution, were also urging a China for Chinese. The country burst into fire from within, like a haystack with...
...anti-foreign movement rampant in China last week was very different. It burned low, and from the outside. Even the stupidest coolie knew that its sole purpose was to drive out white foreigners so that yellow foreigners could inherit the fat of the land. In each of last week's anti-foreign incidents the Japanese mailed fist was either bare or clenched within a Chinese glove...