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...tall and strong and swift of foot were they Beyond the dwarfing city's pale abortions Because their thought had never been the prey Of care or gain; the green woods were their portions...
Brown's play this year is not so imposing as its undefeated status. Its first four Ivy wins all came by one-goal margins, and its 1-0 victories over Princeton and Dartmouth pale when compared to Harvard's 2-0 and 6-1 scores...
...Atropos with her shears, Time with his scythe, the Pale Horse and Rider of the Apocalypse, the grinning skeleton at the revels of Everyman-and the God of Judgment-have maintained their power on earth, to frighten man and elate him, to drive him to noble works and to dreadful deeds...
...chemical means of discrim- inating human from animal blood. The mysteries of blood coagulation were then elucidated-the blood of a person who dies suddenly, it was discovered, coagulates rapidly, but then, for no known reason reliquefies. The pathology of rape was explored-semen, somebody noted, emits a pale blue glow under ultraviolet light. And some brilliant solutions were provided for a major medico-legal problem: How to detect murder disguised as suicide...
Self-sufficiency, it seems, had become her ideal, and in Pale Horse, Pale Rider-a story that tells how she almost died of the flu during World War I-Author Porter describes how she snatched her life, and with it her independence, out of the jaws of death. "Death is death, she said. Silenced she sank easily through deeps under deeps of darkness until she lay like a stone at the farthest bottom of life, no longer aware yet alive with a peculiar lucidity and coherence; a minute fiercely burning particle of being that knew itself alone, that relied upon...