Word: paled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...races left new marks in the world record book as well as in the pine track: the 70-yd high hurdles, and the 1⅞-mi. relay. Lanky, pale-faced Percy Beard of Alabama equalled the world record in both his heats for the hurdles and then led dark-haired Lee Sentman, last year's champion, and Gene Record of Harvard, intercollegiate outdoor champion, in the final. His time of 8.5 sec. took one-tenth of a second off the U. S. record. The Penn Relay team won their race easily. They were anchored by Carl Coan who, generally...
...clarity and well-denied standards. Too often critical essays of letters are based on ill-expressed foundations. Though at times the lectures may fall into questionable severities, they come as a reactionary warning that will prove valuable to poets of letters and life in their attempt to solve the pale geometry of snow...
...slashed picture with Rembrandt's great Anatomy Lesson by Dr. Tulp which, safe and sound at The Hague last week, is as well known as Rembrandt's Night Watch. The Amsterdam Lesson shows but three figures?the lecturer, a Dr. Deyman, the corpse, strongly foreshortened with its large, pale feet pointing at the spectator, and an assistant gingerly holding a piece of skull. Last week's was not its first misadventure. In 1723 it was nearly destroyed by fire; only Dr. Deyman, the corpse and the hands of the assistant were preserved...
...eternal appeal does not lie with these adventures of the body alone. Kipling and Keyserling have done as well with India. It is when Yeats-Brown travels off the beaten-path of the senses that Kim and Gunga Din pale into insignificance. Strange stories have come out of the East for years; the cobra-enchanter, the sacred animals and the mystical rites along the Ganges, the horrible parade of the Juggernaut in the Temple Square. The Bengal Lancer wondered about these. And wondering, he took to the path of the great Yogi, he sat at the feet of the guru...
...favorite question on Shakespeare examinations is ''Distinguish between horror and terror." Sanctuary is compact of both. The horrors of any ghost story pale beside the ghastly realism of this chronicle...