Word: paled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parted Per Pale...
...House had passed on to the Senate a pale and eviscerated OPA (TIME, April 29). Had not OPA been damned from hell to breakfast during the war when it stood for gas rationing, food rationing and such nuisances? Had not OPA been damned by farm lobbyists and businessmen after the war? Had not OPA failed to keep prices down? Black markets were rampant (see below). Perhaps the House had thought it was doing a fine thing in crippling OPA. But the House was in for a surprise...
While the University authorities have acknowledged the problem, their attention has resulted in a make-do policy that will look good on the financial balance sheets, but will pale beside the efforts of other colleges. Harvard's record consists of importing 198 second-hand government units from a Maine project, setting these dwellings up on three areas adjacent to the University, and running them in conjunction with the government. Realizing the drop-in-bucket inadequacy of this effort, an administrative committee is quietly searching out the alumni and local realtors for vacant apartment buildings and hotels and is further conducting...
...PALE BLONDE OF SANDS STREET [224 pp.)-William Chapman White-Viking...
...Pale Blonde is a neat, agreeable popular novel obviously designed to become an even neater, even more agreeable movie. Its story: an ingenuous sailor named Johnny Smith picks up with a Brooklyn-Irish girl named Katie. (Sands Street connects the Brooklyn Bridge with the Brooklyn Navy Yard.) After tinting a little of the town they retire to her room, very much in love, misunderstand each other before they can possibly worry censors, and lose each other...