Word: palling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stouffer, chairman of a group that directed a pall of 6,500 Americans last summer, pointed out that in addition only one percent of the public listed Communists or restricted civil liberties among their general worries. Almost none of those concerned about Communism had any idea of what a Communist...
Virgo. A pall will settle over the University when the first crop of Advanced-Standees flunk out on placement tests. "We made a few mistakes," Dean Bundy will admit. "Those little beggars can be deceptive...
...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...
...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...