Word: yellowish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Walter Reed Army Medical Center, he has worked on the bone glue for four years, has found that patients with compound fractures can return to work four to ten months sooner than with plaster casts. It helps particularly with older people whose bones are slow to heal. While the yellowish bone glue has produced no toxic or foreign-matter reactions in patients thus far, Drs. Mandarino and Salvatore are still studying it for potential long-term ill effects...
Finally isolated, it turned out to be a yellowish, fatty substance with a subtle, not unpleasant odor of leather. Study of its chemical structure revealed a relatively simple formula: C10H30O- technically an alcohol. The million cocoons had yielded only a barely visible...
...foothills, is as big as a castle and guarded like one. I went up there with my two policemen buddies, and a soldier dogged me so closely it looked as if we were in lock step. The house itself is an immense pile of plate glass and yellowish-brown stone, with galleries running all around. On the next hilltop was a huge neon sign about 50 ft. by 20 ft. that flashes at night, "telling people," my buddies said, "of all Trujillo's good works...
...planet to the earth is Venus. It is about as big as the earth and has an atmosphere, but it seems even less attractive as real estate than the airless, sun-seared moon. Its atmosphere is so cloudy that outsiders, peering from the earth, can see only its slightly yellowish cloud deck, which sometimes shows faint, impermanent markings...
...fine dust particles of carbon suboxide (0302). In an attempt to prove this theory, he made a mixture of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide and exposed it to assorted radiation at the Argonne National Laboratory. Sure enough, carbon suboxide formed, and its molecules stuck together to make particles of yellowish polymer...