Word: paled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...half-a-dozen other aspersions almost made us believe that there was in fact no longer a cult of authorship in the University. This year such incidents as the publication of "Eight More Harvard Poets" restore some of our confidence, and makes the Yale-and-Football bogey seem a pale ghost. Sixteen poets worthy of the title in the few years since the War would be a respectable garner in itself: and these collections make no pretense to all-inclusiveness...
...outgoing Senior, it seems, has his full quota of troubles. Among the horrors and incremental difficulties of the last few weeks, which make Divisionals pale in comparison, there is one which he usually puts off until the very last moment--that of disposing of the odd assortment of tables, chairs, couches, and other equipment, necessary and unnecessary, which he has collected during his four years' stay...
...will be held inside of the Stadium Saturday and the spectators will be given a chance to watch the Westerners, who are practically in a class by themselves in this event. Legendre of Georgetown is the East's most consistent representative, but his throws of 170 and 174 feet pale in comparison to the reports from the coast which credit Hanner of Leland Stanford with several practice marks of over 205 feet. Newfeld of California has a record of 194 feet 5 1-2 inches, the best mark that has been made in a regular competition, while Bronder of Pennsylvania...
...peace, De Valera and his young enthusiasts are carrying on a general policy of guerilla warfare and terrorism. No fewer than three hundred and thirty postoffices have recently been broken into and robbed, while the killings have averaged some five or ten a day. Our American crime waves pale before such a display...
...generations, right back into the blood-and-iron days of the nineties and early nineteen-hundreds, the days, of turtle neck sweaters and pale ale, of law term grades and high batting averages, the Yale senior has invariably made graceful gesture in favor of the Phi Beta Kappa key--at least on the statistical blank handed about the class a few weeks before graduation. As to which honor he has spent most of his time pursuing during the preceding four years, that is perhaps another story. Even if he did spent more time chasing the fleet football than what...