Word: paled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Glycogen. The $5,000 annual award of the Sugar Research Foundation went to Austrian-born Dr. Carl Cori of Washington University Medical School, St. Louis. Pale, tall Dr. Cori, 51, specializes in sugar, the basic fuel of human metabolism. For 20 years he has traced the progress of sugar through the body, watched it turn into glycogen (animal starch), measured how much glycogen is stored in the muscles and liver...
Several well-known university psychologists recently submitted to the educational division of the United Nations a plan for International Education which, while it seems pale stuff beside the big dynamic questions of Greek aid and starvation in Europe, is interesting as one of the small, unsensational steps necessary in the long haul out of the world's postwar slough. The series of international institutes for teachers, researchers and young people that the plan envisages may very possibly be a foreshadowing of the form that will be assumed by education in the future...
With a blare of trumpets, CBS publicists this week introduced radio's latest Boy Wonder. Pale, thinly handsome Fletcher Markle, 26, is writer-producer-director of Studio One, a bright, new, hour-long dramatic series on one of radio's choicest spots (Tuesdays...
...until the university's regular class day is done does Veterans College begin. By 10:30 p.m., when the special session ends, the double-timing Brown instructors who teach it are usually a pale shade of grey. V.C. students, who cannot join fraternities or compete for varsity teams, hit the books hard, with President Henry M. Wriston's warning in their ears: "This is not a Government gravy train...
Though he has learned to fly in the 1,200,000 miles he has ridden airlanes since 1929, Patterson looks, talks, and dresses more like the banker he started out to be. Small (5 ft. 5 in.), pale-faced, with sharp brown eyes, he usually dresses somberly in grey or black pin-striped suits, lets his dreams fly no higher than his staff of air economists permits...