Word: colorlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Tonight at 8.30 o'clock at the Boston Garden, the University hockey sextet, which opened its season last Thursday with a rather colorless 7 to 2 victory over Technology, will meet the first real opposition of the season at the hands of the strong University Club team, which includes many former college stars in its ranks...
...week by Thomas Albert Dwight ("Tad") Jones, Yale's famed coach for ten years who three years ago retired to his New Haven coal business. Tad Jones remembers 26 years of Big Three football. He was All-American quarterback himself in 1907. He was a hard-working but colorless coach; he originated few plays though he had the reputation of having invented some which he borrowed from his smart brother Howard J., who coaches University of Southern California. "Get rid of Jones- he's a boy scout leader," said Yale's Old Guard when the team...
...years of quiet research in his laboratory at Munich, he announced that he had succeeded in synthesizing hematin, the red iron core which carries oxygen into the blood (TIME, Jan. 7, 1929). He used pyrrol, a constituent of the common cure-all known as bone oil, subjected the colorless liquid to a complicated chemical treatment to obtain his results. The synthetic product he called hematine. Or ganic chemists are now experimenting with the substance, using it upon animals to de termine how doctors may employ it to cure human disease. Sir Chandrasekhara Ven kata Raman discovered in 1928 that when...
...extinct, came from the swamp which was drained to build San Francisco. He paid $10,000 per year to collectors who went to Baffin Bay, Labrador, the tropics to find specimens for him. Some of the rarest are worth $20,000 a piece. Most of these are drab, colorless. The brilliant butterflies are common...
...until the 19th century did pyrotechny make big advances. Prior to this time saltpetre, carbon, sulphur made up the colorless displays. As various metal salts were discovered they were introduced to make colors in fireworks. Strontium and lithium salts give red: barium and copper, green; other copper salts blue. Last great advance was the discovery that magnesium and aluminum salts impart white brilliance to fireworks...