Word: colorlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strike at cold. Professor Giauque used gadolinium sulfate octahydrate, a colorless crystal substance derived from a rare earth metal. This he cooled to about -306.4° F., when he began wrenching the molecules with a huge magnet which University of California owns. Liquid helium absorbed and withdrew the magnetically generated heat. At -459.1° Professor Giauque was stopped, regretting that he could not stride the stupendously difficult little step of .3° which would carry him to Absolute Zero where substances should retain no more heat, where molecular activity should completely cease. where all things should be coldly inert...
Expert fingerprinters held a party in Manhattan last week to observe a new, clean method of performing their job. The standard system requires the subject to smudge his thumbs and fingers with printers' ink. messy and hard to remove. The new method utilizes a pad impregnated with a colorless, nonpoisonous chemical compound and a special paper sensitive to that compound. When the subject presses his digits upon the pad, then upon the paper, his prints immediately appear with photographic clarity, his fingers remain clean, less suggestive of wrongdoing...
...truthfully descriptive words about those whom you present in TIME. . . . I respect President-elect Roosevelt the more because he has not allowed physical difficulties to daunt him. . . . ELEANOR MARE Chicago, Ill. Sirs: Suppose a few of the 400,000 do wish you to be more orthodox - orthodox-i.e, colorless - in your write ups. Don't do it. In the case of the President-elect your out spoken frankness is less pointed than the prevailing skeleton-in -the -cupboard attitude. Achievement is enhanced by physical handicap. Along with your range and terseness your great asset is your lifelike picturing...
...Patterson did not offset his inability to prevent the ball from coming off the back wall, and he bowed before the former Harvard squash captain's experience and finesse. The blasting drives of J. G. Cornish ocC, spelled the immediate defeat of Clark. The last three matches were somewhat colorless, apparently none of the players of either team being up to the best of form...
...grey mist hung close to the grey, metallic Thames. It was early in the morning and the ships that came from Virginia and the East lay at anchor, silent and calm. Out of the murky water stood the colorless walls and turrets of the Tower of London; and, on the big White Tower, the flag of the Stuarts, wet and heavy, slapped against its pole as the giddy wind of a London fog caught it and let it fall...