Word: bloodless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...absorbed his life, the obsession with hypothesis and demonstration that robbed him of everything but the passion for work, exploded the dream of Genesis so that we now dismiss it as folklore or, more mincingly, as allegory. God, Heaven and Hell were stripped of reality and are now only bloodless metaphysical abstractions to very orthodox people. Whether the Darwinian form of biological theory is ever fully demonstrated or not, says Mr. Bradford, never again will special and immutable creation be found in the mental tool-chests of thinking men. And what Darwin thought of reconciling science and religion is plainly...
...orchestra? In mid-season form, well-disciplined, beautiful strings, hesitant brasses. Conductor Stock? An excellent leader, sure, scholarly, sane. Too sane, some said, called him dry, bloodless...
...TIME, March 1) a no more and no less notorious adventurer than Dictator Pangalos, sprang a bloodless coup d' etat at Athens, telegraphed an order for the President's arrest to Spetsae. Resourceful, President Pangalos hurried aboard the destroyer Pergamos, sought to escape to a foreign port. Unlucky, he found the Pergamos short of coal...
...last, softspoken, pale, bloodless, Felix Dzerzhinsky found that he had bled the enemies of Bolshevism whiter than his own prison-bleached forehead. He became convinced that the "Cheka" was no longer needed, saw to it that several of his incurably bloodthirsty agents were quietly murdered, "for the ultimate good and safety of the state," and focused his own sleepless energies on the economic problems of Soviet government...
...full curving lips closed with an unctuous suction about his thin, bloodless muzzle. Slowly, cautiously his tongue pressed a wadded spitball into her mouth...