Word: palled
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...roommates, James L. Howse '56, and Harry E. Brawley '56 will act as pall bearers at the funeral, in Baltimore...
...appeal to brows of all elevations. They have been admired in The New Yorker hung in some of the world's great museums, and reproduced on wallpaper fabrics and greeting cards. Last week 350 of them appeared in a book (The Passport-Harper; $5). Most books of cartoons pall pretty fast; thumbing them drubs the funnybone to numbness. With Steinberg's book: the drubbing is acute and varied enough to remain a slightly painful pleasure for an hour or so despite the fact that the book is clumsily laid out and padded with his second-best sketches...
...stagnant air over the mountain-hemmed area, ordinarily harmless chemicals rise from factory chimneys, auto exhausts, backyard incinerators at the rate of 3,100 tons a day. Under strong sunshine, the chemicals react with one another and with molecules of ozone (O 3 ) to form a low-hanging, acrid pall, irritating to humans and damaging to crops...
...most desperate smog investigation. For three months, during the height of the smog "season," scientific teams will analyze some 700 air samples each day at ten different sampling stations spread through the area, will attempt to discover exactly what causes smog to form and how it spreads its grimy pall across the landscape. Cost of the investigation...
...Clair de Lune, accompanied by five Madison Square Garden spotlights making like the moon. Hardly anybody had time to decide whether he was playing all the notes: everything he did (including a soft-shoe dance and a pair of vocal numbers) was over before it could begin to pall...