Word: paled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mythical average graduate probably has no more definite idea of such details than his stenographer, if he has one. As numerous others have remarked previously, college is not for learning facts but for learning how to think and how to judge values and make decisions. It is the pale ghost of that training which prompts the glowing epistles from "State Street" and the promising offers at the Employment Office...
...known if Argentina will be represented at the meeting of the Assembly in Geneva in September. It is officially stated that this will depend on whether the League will accept such members as Germany and Mexico, who are still beyond the pale...
People have shuddered in reading about the famous plagues of history,--the swarms of files which soured Egyptian tempers, the campaigns of the African ant-armies, the rats of Hamburg which the Pled Piper charmed with his pipe. But these pale before the contemporary radio plague. It has swept the country, closed the family phonograph, put dust on the family piano. No Pied Piper has come forward to charm it into the ocean so a radio council has gathered at Washington to control the tyranny...
...twenty or thirty mile spin had his imaginative range broadened. He had less need to sit by the fire and read an imaginative book. By the time the motor car had ceased to be a novelty, the Great War came on, making all imaginative efforts seem thin and pale. Except to get away from the thought of violence it was almost difficult to read a novel between 1914 and 1918. By the time we were sick of war and its terrific drama, the motion picture came, also bringing the measure of stimulation. With all that can be said against...
...University organization cannot be assured completely so long as it limits itself to an existence for the University alone. The Dramatic Club during the last few years, has proved that it no longer gives performances of the "college dramatics" type. Its reputation has spread beyond the limited pale in which it has hitherto been confined and the present trip will show others that it deserves the high praise it has received here. It is safe to assume that in a short time its name will have become as familiar to "the great American public" as similar trips have made...