Word: blueness
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...most fervent opponents of splits are old-line managements who feel that the high price of a stock is synonymous with quality. Splitting a blue chip selling at $100 so that it sells at $20 would wash out its blueness. Superior Oil of California takes a defiant pride in the fact that its stock sells at $1,850 a share...
...Pacific is no longer the same ocean. Its blueness and its vastness remain, but all else is changed since that hazy, calm September dawn in 1943 when the new Hellcat fighters flew against Marcus Island from the new Essex-and Independence-class carriers in their first combat mission...
...shirt that cost him less than two francs. The mystic poet, Max Jacob, helped Picasso, who steadfastly refused to do any "commercial" work. A terrific and efficient worker, to avoid interruptions Picasso soon took to painting all night, a habit which may have had something to do with the blueness of the Blue Period...
...their "smothered" babies to a physician, the rate of infant mortality would be lower. A baby's heart beat is so shallow, so rapid, that often only an expert with a stethoscope can detect it. And in the case of shock, the beat is intermittent, almost inaudible. Even blueness is not so much a sign of approaching death as a warning of oxygen deficiency...
...point of suspension, because of the weight of the body. If the marks are horizontal, they show that the victim was not hanged but garroted, so that suicide is ruled out, no matter in what circumstances the body is found. In general, deaths by asphyxia are characterized by blueness (cyanosis) of the face, ears, fingernails and lips; the eyes are bloodshot and the inside of the lids are red; and there are tiny hemorrhages under the scalp. If the victim was manually strangled, the little hyoid bone in the throat is invariably crushed. If carbon monoxide was the asphyxiating agent...