Word: colorlessness
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...character portraits of soldiers who go to war are more than likely to be drawn quite differently before and after the fact. Prior to the fall of France, very little was made known about Admiral Darlan to the Allied press save that he was colorless but competent. The archives of London and Washington now reveal France's No. 1 sailor as quite a different personality...
Oliver is the only man who has successfully crossbred any of the 1,100 species of earthworms. For feeding chickens, frogs, etc., he produced a meaty hybrid ten inches long. Another hybrid, short and thick, yields a colorless, odorless, volatile oil useful in medicine. A medium-sized hybrid, very tough and vigorous, can be used to recolonize soils whose worm populations have been killed off by strong fertilizers or poison sprays. Oliver calls it his "soilution worm." In California and elsewhere there are several hundred farmers who have planted great batches of eggs, raised earthworm armies in their soil. Some...
...hunch that a way to save teeth from decay might be to encourage the staphylococci by giving them an extra amount of urea to work on. So he made up a mouthwash of carbamide (synthetic urea crystals). The crystals are colorless and odorless, taste cool and salty. He gave the mouthwash to 100 patients to use on their toothbrushes, found that an increased amount of calcium was deposited on their teeth...
...humour. Recorded by Victor on the Baroque organ at the Germanic Museum is Volume 111 of J. S. Bach's Little Organ Book, to my mind the least interesting of the month's releases. The precludes in the volume, written for Christmas and the New year, are dry and colorless, the kind of hack work every composer turns out at some time or other, which had much better be forgotten. Nor does Biggs's jumbled, unclear performance add anything to the music. A different story are the Bach Chorales sung in German by the Trapp Family Choir, also on Victor...
Nebraska's able, pay-as-you-go Governor Robert LeRoy Cochran delighted Administration Democrats by beating anti-Roosevelt, anti-Labor Senator Edward R. Burke in the primaries last April. But snow-haired, colorless Hugh A. Butler, former G. O. P. National Committeeman, who was expected to lose the election, turned up with enough votes to beat Governor Cochran...