Word: pallid
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Even the present session is likely to be a pallid reflection of an ordinary term. Many of the first string instructors are in Europe or otherwise absent. An enrollment of less than fifteen hundred is hardly enough to support anything more than token extra curricular activities. Sports there will be, but only for the participants, not for the spectators. They will be extremely informal. Publications will be scarcely better off. The "Advocate" and "Radditudes" are not scheduled for the summer. Such activities as remain functional will be operating on a reduced schedule...
...head was injured in an auto accident. Arakelian made up his mind to send for Avak. Last week the faith healer of Azerbaijan arrived at Los Angeles' municipal airport, dressed in the long robes of a Gregorian Communicant, with matted beard and shoulder-length hair framing his pallid face...
...every night to gather food, they are as hot as birds. How do their spermatogenic cells withstand this nightly cooking? Dr. Cowles examined bats, both active and resting, in the breeding and the non-breeding seasons. He found that, while they are at rest, their hairless wings are pallid, almost bloodless. But when they raise their temperature to the flying level, which they must do by an effort of will before they can take off, their wings fill up with blood, and become as efficient in heat dissipation as automobile radiators...
...There were hopes that the battle would be joined once again with the start of the fall term, but the contestants--faculty, administration, and student council alike--have turned to fresher fields of endeavor, and what was once a robust educational fight seems to have become merely a pallid and unimportant disagreement...
...Leading a Horse (see cut) which even a know-nothing in art could see was first rate, has, says Barr, "an unpretentious, natural nobility of order and gesture which makes the official guardians of the 'Greek' tradition such as Ingres and Puvis de Chavannes seem vulgar or pallid...