Word: colorlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after the Republican nomination for Mayor (TIME, Sept. 16). Philadelphians, curious to know which member of the onetime partnership had been its political brains, watched their contest eagerly. So did outsiders interested in seeing how the third city of the land would choose between a brilliant but colorless student of finance and a seasoned, shouting, arm-waving politician...
...most New York newspapers, this was just one more automobile accident, to be disposed of in a short colorless story on an inside page. To the New York World-Telegram, it was a chance to front-page a piece of extraordinary reporting. Excerpts from the World-Telegram's account of the accident...
...like Lincoln he loved the common people. He was a liberal, an idealist, a student of government and sociology, a stanch friend of Labor. On the platform, however, the only man in 100 years to be elected Governor of New Hampshire three times proved to be a halting, colorless speaker who, unlike Lincoln, failed notably to kindle public enthusiasm...
...dressing room, new Champion Jimmy Braddock, whom 22 men have previously defeated, explained his part in what was essentially the most colorless championship match in a decade: "I knew in the seventh that I had him. ... I took his Sunday punch and it didn't hurt me. Say, I guess that Bowl jinx still holds good." His night-watchman father, his mother, his four brothers had witnessed his victory. His wife, onetime telephone operator and mother of three, stayed fearfully at home, listening to the radio account of the fight. Champion Braddock dashed off to a Manhattan hotel...
...Rothemund concluded that this was the process of photosynthesis and chlorophyll genesis after he raised an acre of colorless corn in the pitch-dark cellar of the big laboratory building which Antioch College built with Mr. Kettering's money. The extract of white corn leaves turned green when Dr. Rothemund put it in jars of carbon dioxide...