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...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...
Playing a good brand of schoolboy baseball yesterday, the Harvard Freshman nine struggled through nine colorless innings with the Brown first year men, and finally emerged at the wrong end of a 9 to 1 count...
...Noyes is a resident of the District of Columbia where his newspaper . . . depends for its success upon the army of officeholders. . . . The Star never offends and rarely criticizes the powers that be. It is not doing it an injustice to say that it has one of the most colorless editorial pages in the world; it can become excited over the question of retiring pay for the departmental clerks, and it can, of course, denounce with the best the I. W. W., the Socialists, the Bolsheviks, and the bootleggers. . . . Mr. Noyes is not a fighting man either by temperament or philosophy...