Word: fades
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still the college believes that Social Service is anything but a silly name. Year after year the student is buoyed up by the hysteria of platform idealism to undertake something for which he has neither time nor interest. Year after year, the high-sounding phrases of early fall fade along towards winter, into the stern reality of a dirty, noisy neighborhood house. Boredom takes the place of quasi enthusiasm and the student struggles painfully and hopelessly for a while, only to let it all drop in the end. He knows then, as others do not know, that the whole shining...
...lives of scientific investigators are too numerous and too well-known to need citation. The names of Trudeau, Bergoine, Becquerel, Muller, Macfayden, and hosts of this who have died in the service of humanity are too deeply engraved in the medical and scientific history of the world to fade with the passage of time. There is an impersonal heroism in such quiet sacrifice that endures while other more briefly startling varieties sink gently into oblivion...
Beauty vanishes, beauty passes. Marble blackens in the earth; songs fade out of the minds of men; wind and damp loosen paint from canvas. Were this not so, there would be no poets, nor would there have been a panic in Milan 16 years ago. Cause of that panic was the fact that a certain Prof. Cavenaghi had discovered that Leonardo Da Vinci's famed Last Supper was crumbling away. The immortal paint was drying from the canvas. Cavenaghi restored it. Recently another Professor, one Silvestri, noticed while dusting the picture that many parts untouched by Cavenaghi were...
...Final Fade-Out Happy as Usual...
...season for serious discussion of issues, but a time when candidates are "sold" to the electorate by the best of advertising methods, News columns reflect as much as advertising pages the desire of vote seekers to hold the public attention by a massive emphasis on slogans and names. Issues fade, personalities are focussed. The same blaring methods that drag money from the pocket of the reader of advertisements tend to be equally successful in drawing his votes. Reiteration, not seasoning, wins...