Word: colorlessness
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...current Journal of Applied Physics. Dr. Walls's theories will hardly quiet the old argument as to whether the bull sees red, or merely the movement of the matador's cape. Dog lovers will continue to protest the thought that their pets live in a colorless grey world.* But Biologist Walls outlines a hypothesis of color vision new to the layman. The ability to see colors Dr. Walls links directly to visual acuity-the ability to see well. He points out that the vertebrates with the greatest color vision (bony fishes, reptiles and birds, monkeys, apes...
...have been the shrewish organizer of defeat. In Britain, Sheean walked past the workmen stringing barbed vire around the Houses of Parliament. "So it's come to this, has it?" said Lady Diana Cooper, "in that curiously husky voice;" Inside Parliament Sheean heard history made by "a colorless voice." It was Clement Attlee reading the one-sentence law which declared that for the duration all persons and property were at the disposal of the state. Said H. G. Wells "rather happily" at lunch next day: "The revolution in England has now begun...
...sober, mild, bespectacled, almost colorless man named Dr. . George William Bachman was last week very busy in the midst of one of the world's most appalling medical problems-that of China...
Although the battle was still largely behind the scenes, it boiled over in the Republican press when a sizable boom developed for bespectacled, colorless Werner W. Schroeder, National Committeeman for Illinois, a good friend of Chicago Tribune Publisher Robert R. McCormick...
...Brown is such a dull Collor," moaned the Sage of the Age I can't even think of a brown Flower. Even Cole is black, and Waters colorless. Of course, certain chemical Extracts are brown, the beef Pattee in the dining-Halls is brown, and Barnes are often painted Brown, but all in all it's dull...