Historical clue formulations

• Seems less impressive, so to speak — 2026-01-02
• Loses color — 2025-09-03
• Changes color in fright — 2024-12-07
• Is not so important, comparatively speaking — 2024-03-01
• Loses color — 2024-02-10
• Lightens up? — 2023-12-26
• Blanches — 2023-10-08
• Doesn't measure up, so to speak — 2023-07-11
• Becomes less important by comparison — 2021-03-31
• Hardly measures up — 2019-11-22
• Doesn't measure up — 2019-02-22
• Gets whiter — 2018-05-07
• Loses color — 2017-04-17
• Loses color — 2016-07-19
• Etiolates — 2012-03-17
• Hardly measures up — 2010-08-19
• Is visibly frightened — 2009-01-06
• Is visibly frightened — 2004-07-21
• Sees a ghost, maybe — 2004-06-07
• Loses color — 2003-03-24
• Loses color — 2000-04-12
• More than flinches — 1999-06-27
• Loses luster — 1999-06-17
• Blanches — 1996-02-22
• Lightens up? — 1994-08-14
• Loses color — 1994-08-10
• Turns white — 1994-04-19