Word: blueness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tendrils; even his nails were blue. He looked like a figure from a futuristic painting. But this blue man laughed, chatted and showed to admiring fellow-scientists the notes of observations he had made on his blood-reactions during the week he had spent in that glass case. His blueness was caused by the fact that the case was almost entirely airless. A small motor pumped through a cranny only "the minimum amount of air necessary to sustain life." Stretching his length on an operating table, he had his arteries opened, his blood tested. He was glad to be blue...