Word: colorlessness
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...Joseph C. O'Mahoney, whose efforts to modernize the anti-trust laws endeared him to Franklin Roosevelt (and earned him sufferance for fighting the President's Supreme Court plan). Beside Chairman O'Mahoney will sit his antimonopolist colleague, Senator Borah of Idaho, and Utah's colorless, querulous old Senator King. The House members, besides Mr. Eicher, are fiery Hatton Sumners of Texas, sophisticated Brazilla Carroll Reece of Tennessee (Republican...
...musicians and died in 1931, leaving devotees of swing music to collect phonographic records of his art as reverently as art collectors gather the works of Old Masters. In Young Man with a Horn, the hero is called Rick Martin, and he is presented as a good-natured, hardworking, colorless individual, an orphan who learns to play the piano in a Los Angeles mission, shifts to the trumpet under the influence of some first-class Negro musicians, and makes his first success while playing with a group of college boys at a California summer resort. Aside from his music, there...
Many times working with houses with little or no surroundings, Weber produced estates on what had formerly been colorless rice fields, importing all his materials, planting large trees, and constructing his landscape outright...
When these reforms are carried out, the University will be in a position to apply its admissions policy. And it is to be hoped, on the one hand, that men who might make a genuine contribution to Harvard will not be sacrificed for colorless B men, and on the other, that brilliant students will not be turned away because quasi-psychological authorities predict their "maladjustment...
...Seventy times seven the actual inexpugnable colorless formless and insentient night flows through the well-veined nasal passages with an odor of stale crickets and pale...