Word: colorlessness
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...position of right-hand-man is usually colorless. But there are conditions when the opposite is the case. When a man has been right-hand-man to two of the leaders of his profession in two successive generations, when these men have been widely different in characteristics and genius, it is apparent that this right-hand-man must have distinct and powerful merits of his own. Such is the case of Arthur Krock, one-time able assistant of Colonel Henry Watterson (Louisville Courier-Journal), now the assistant of Herbert Bayard Swope (The New York World...
...hydrogen pass through thick nickel steel as though it were a sieve; and there are six different kinds of ice instead of the one that used to be found in cocktails. At these pressures it was found that white phosphorus when heated to 390 degrees suddenly changed from a colorless, waxy, translucent material to a much denser, jet-black, flaky substance like the graphite or black "lead" used in lead pencils. This is an absolutely new form of the element, with properties all its own and with a smaller chemical activity even than red phosphorus. Chemists at Harvard are studying...
...pistols near the Speaker's platform in such a position that they could be seen by the whole House. When the House did see them, it cheered and hooted with mirth. According to the French chemist, Dr. Pierre Louis Rehm, Germany has a new poison gas. It is colorless, odorless, can penetrate a gas mask, is one of the deadliest known to science. It embodies carbon monoxide. Dr. Heinrich Brauns, Minister of Labor, speaking before an audience of German Catholics in Berlin, said that there were 5,000,000 unemployed persons in Germany and 15,000,000 persons dependent...
Practically all the gentlemen who sign these annual opinions (most of them are actually written by professional publicity men) mainly desire to appear cheerful, resolute and yet noncommittal. As literature, the reports are colorless and a trifle tedious as a rule; as prophecy, often ludicrous...
...Most colorless document that has issued from the White House in a generation. . . . Apparently his chief purpose was to disclose as little conviction as possible."?The Dayton News (property of James...