Word: paled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan of cloistering the Harvard Yard with a fringe of low buildings must pale into insignificance beside the gigantic vision of the new building for the University of Pittsburgh, 680 feet of towering steel and stone will make that university the highest seat of learning in the country. It will be one story higher than the Woolworth building, two higher than the Metropolitan Tower, and sixteen powerful elevators will whisk students from class to class...
...universities. The stupid oppression of nearsighted authority drove Shelley from Oxford, when he published a pamphlet on atheism. It could not see that these were the growing pains of vigorous young intellect. It could not foresee that the orthodoxy whose purity they tried to maintain unattached by heresy, would pale gradually before the onslaught of the mind until these cherished tenets of theological metaphysics were held only in the background and with deepest reservations by their apostolic successors, until the science of orthodox apologetics had forsaken its metaphysical subtleties for the less tenuous claim of acting as a social cohesive...
...particular pride is his body. He boasts that he, "over 40 years old, can run nine miles with sprightliness." He sees a fundamental identity between genius and physical health. Among his novels-some 20 in number-are Prince Zaleski, Shapes in the Fire, The Purple Cloud, The Pale Ape, Children of the Wind. The Lord of the Sea was first published...
...times the people cheered; and many times the Premier raised his hat. Then, from a side alley, was heard a noise like the trumpetings of mad elephants. Two hundred Communists, armed to the eyebrows with sticks, swooped upon the Premier, uttering the terrible cry of "Amnestie!"* M. Herriot turned pale. The Communists surrounded him, waved their sticks, "threatened" him. Several times he was all but hit; yet he remained proverbially cool, calm. Police arrived in time to prevent the Premier from being damaged. The Communists were routed. The Premier was pushed into an automobile, driven to the station where...
Author' Timmermans just shouts aloud, in an excess of good spirits, that life at Mother Nature's breast is a glutton's feast for body, mind and soul. It is grand philosophy, stirring tonic for city-pale people. Author Timmermans is Belgian, his gusto unfeigned. The illustrator, Anton Pieck, contributes fetching garnitures, one per page...