Word: yellowish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barbary ape looks like a figure in a bilious dream, is just as unpleasant in action. Its squarish, long-snouted, wrinkle-mouthed face is palely naked except for matted tufts protruding from cheeks and forehead. It is yellowish brown & white, about the size of an Airedale, walks on four legs like its cousin the baboon. No tree-climber, it lives in Gibraltar's caves, is apt to turn up almost anywhere on the Rock...
...well-bred dogs straggle crookedly down the resort city's wide boardwalk. An American Legion band blared martially while the dogs tugged or were tugged by small owners who had entered them in Ocean City's second annual Mutt Show. Proudly heading the line ambled an ingratiating, yellowish mongrel named Hobo Ocean City who makes the boardwalk his year-round home. Barred from competition because he was champion Mutt last year, he was chosen host this year...
...effect upon the growth and form of the face and head which is brought about by extracting the teeth from one side of the jaw of a growing animal. He is also making modern application of Hunter's experiments in pregnant animals, in which the feeding of madder, a yellowish vegetables substance, indicates that future dentistry will begin before the child is born, and proves for the first time that madder fed to a pregnant mother directly effects the bones and teeth of the unborn infant...
Dealer (morning). The merger was purely financial. The News is still published in its own premises, a plant so fine that the yellowish News has been called "the tramp that lives in a palace...
...shoulder of butchered lamb, preserved last week in the cooler of the Wisconsin Dairy & Food Division at Madison, testifies for this miracle. The meat glows with a yellowish light. The bones appear outlined as in an X-ray film. State Chemist Harry Klueter last week said the phosphorescence was due to bacteria in the meat...