Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the people who were standing along the banks of Schuylkill Navy's Varsity had been considered a slight favorite before the Regatta began, and as the Jayvee and Freshman races were rowed, the Midshipmen's supporters became more and more sure of themselves while Penn was thought to be out of the race...
Penn held its lead until about half a mile from the finish; then the Navy went by, gliding along at 32 or 33. A powerful boatload, the sailors were rowing three or four strokes lower than their opponents...
Chatting cheerfully, they looked down on busy traffic and Harvard Square's varied humanity from their mohair perches. Especially amusing to them as they rolled peacefully along was a blond Harvard lad, tennis racquet under his arm and, mercy, clad in shorts...
...title poem. And more than echoes. Here is a poet at work on one of the curious monuments of our times, giving it that inner meaning without which nothing is worth anything. Indeed, it is this reviewer's opinion that Mr. Parson poem ought to be exhibited along with the glass flowers themselves; that every viewer of these "mimic plants" ought to read this poem as he stares in curious fascination at them. For Mr. Parson has symbolized them, has defined them as the idle curiosity they really are, their verisimilitude to nature only proving their inadequacy as flowers...
BLOOD ON THE MOON-Linton Wells- Houghton Mifflin ($3). Autobiography of an ex-Hearst foreign correspondent whose tales of wars, revolutions, ingenious out-wittings of the world's great clip along like an oldtime movie serial...