Word: yellowness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dull red coat of preservative paint is the usual lot of structural steel, a dull red which is promptly censored by an overcoating of black. But from now on, the structural steel for all skyscrapers whose frames are by the Hay Foundry & Iron Works of New York will shine yellow in the glare of the sun. The first of them will be the Louis Adler Building, now arising on Seventh Avenue at 37th St., Manhattan...
Chefoo-where the hair nets come from -was the scene of lively doings last week. Away from this flourishing city in the Yellow Sea vamoosed its rightful defender, General Liu Chen-nien; and victoriously in marched dread Marshal Chang Tsung-chang (TIME, March 7, 1927). Within an hour Chefoo's terrified Chinese Chamber of Commerce had presented the marshal with $100,000 spot cash gold, in return for his promise not to issue his favorite order, "Loot...
...poisoning specialist, was summoned by telegraph and he, with a Waterbury pathologist and dentist, took the body apart. They found that its jawbones were decayed, also parts of the skull, a bone in the right thigh, and four teeth. The heart and lungs were sound, but other internal organs yellow with...
...look old enough for the job he grew a beard. When he straightened out several miles of the Northern Pacific R.R. in Montana he risked the loss of $100,000 in equipment by discarding the slow mule-pack transportation and using cows through the swift currents of the Yellow stone River. In 1915 he decided China needed railroads, so he went there, got the concessions, built the roads. During the War he bored a hole through the mountains of Washington to reach the spruce forests and provide building material for airplanes. He has just finished a huge dam in Vermont...
What happened to the Crimson, so free from "The stress and competition of the business world"? On October 23, Time, in an editorial, commented unfavorably on the North Carolina Game, and next day the Crimson rushed to the defense with a lead editorial entitled, "The Sneer and the Yellow Sheet." On February 8, Mr. Kenneth L. Roberts, writing for the Saturday Evening Post, made merry at Harvard's expense, and once more the Crimson responded nobly. Where was the Crimson on March 1; on that day, the New York World under the title, "More Sacco-Vanzetti Evidence", printed grave charges...