Word: backed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...conditions of the contest allow the exhibitor to have all of the work done for him except the actual exposure; but in case of a tie preference will be given to the man who has actually finished his own pictures. All prints must be mounted and marked on the back with the title, the exhibitor's name and the amount of work done by him. No man may exhibit more than 25 prints...
...rule of the Amateur Fencers' League of America was adopted to govern the intercollegiate contests. By this rule a touch between the waistline and the collar will count as a point, whether the stroke is made in back or in front...
According to the conditions of the exhibition, the exposure must be the work of the exhibitor, but he may have all other work done for him. All prints must be mounted and marked on the back with the title, the exhibitor's name, and the amount of work done by him. In case of a tie, preference will be given to the man who has done all his own work. No man may exhibit more than 25 prints...
...were boys at school a part of their curriculum, and not once a week or once a month, but once a day from October to June. At two o'clock you see them pouring out at their college gates, and at four or there-abouts you see them hurrying back. Three hundred or so of them row; three hundred more of them play Rugby; four hundred and fifty play association football; two hundred perhaps play hockey, and the rest have other recreations; track athletics, lacrosse, cross country riding, motoring and so forth...
...statue is a plaster model of a colossal figure exhibited at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo in 1901. Kronos is represented with out-stretched wings, symbolic of the apparently swift flight of time, but standing on the back of a turtle, as significant of its slow progress. The face is covered with a veil, emblematic of mystery...