Word: whitish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Armed with a high-powered rifle, a tester for the biggest U. S. explosives company walked a few paces, wheeled, aimed, fired. The bullet zipped into a two-foot cylinder of whitish stuff resembling caked salt. Nothing happened. A 50-lb. trip-hammer crashed down on another cylinder. Nothing happened. A man attacked another piece of the substance with a blowtorch. It simply sizzled. Red-hot irons bored holes in other pieces and still nothing happened. Other lumps were dropped into furnaces. They disintegrated harmlessly. Testers tried in vain to make the stuff explode with blasting caps. But when...
Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud formations shut out the sky and cloak the whole land in a tent that had the earth for its floor. Absent is the late pale green of heaven, the distant rims of the world are suffused into the gathering twilight. The land is barren and fruitless except for the smiling champaigns of flowers blotched intermittently throughout all the wastes. There is no wind, or breath of air, or life along this unemancipated expanse of soil. For the world and all its singing birds and budding trees and songs and mountains and summits...
Last week President Charles Benjamin Bohn of Detroit's Bohn Aluminum & Brass Corp. announced that his company, after five years of research, had discovered a method, technically ingenious and commercially feasible, for producing virgin aluminum from alunite. Alunite is a whitish ore containing potassium aluminum sulphate...
...prints, explained Dr. Falenks, would show humps as whitish and holes as dark blurs, thus reveal the first sign of cancer or ulcer. Philadelphia physicians withheld comment until the films should be developed. But everyone knows that the sooner a cancer is discovered and treated the better. Dr. Falenks was sure the Gastro-Photo marked a noteworthy advance in the incessant cancer...
...followed that idea through, found that a growth in the coverings of the brain is frequently associated with epilepsy. Small whitish bodies called Pacchionian granulations grow out of the arachnoid (middle) membrane. Dr. Ney's belief is that man's upright posture conditions the growth of Pacchionian granulations. The growths frequently erode, in one direction through the dura mater and into the skull, in the other direction through the pia mater to the brain itself. Their final effect often is to peg the brain to the skull...