Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last summer the Directors of the Museum discovered in France a set of embroideries hitherto unknown and unpublished, probably done near Valencia in Spain around 1400, a period from which very few embroideries are in existence today. The large cross-shaped orphrey from the back of the chasuble represents the cruicified Christ; at the foot are the emblems of the Passion and a beautifully unified group composed of the Vigin, Saint John and Mary Magdalene. The wood of the cross is carried out in stitches following the grain, and the background is worked in threads of pure gold couched...
After the rest Harvard come back and played the Navy on even terms. Towards the end of the game three successive baskets by P. W. Mahady '31 and a shot by S. C. Burns '30 tied the score at 35 all. The Navy however put on a determined drive and forged ahead again just before the whistle ended the game. NAVY HARVARD Farren, J. Bauer, l.f. r.g., Jaffee, Burns C. Miller, Allen, r.f. l.g., Rex, Harper Colestock, H. Bauer, c. c., Burns, Mahady A. Miller, Bowstrom, l.g. r.f., Farrell, O'Connell Lincoln, Bernet, r.g. l.f., Wenner, Ward, Upton...
...China. Barely a year had elapsed since that patient bird spread its wings over what was hoped to be a united nation under the banking regime. But last week the news dispatches carried the old story--the dragons of war have broken loose again and frightened the timid creature back to its Geneva sanctuary. The details are not unusual. A defeated general raises an army; a force sent to suppress him revolts; rebellion flares up in another place and before long civil war is raging once more...
...Yale team made a good showing against the Army team, last Saturday, and with S. P. Porter back in the game it is certain that they will present formidable opposition to the Crimson riders...
Discretion got the upper hand over his enthusiasm before it was too late to catch the last train back to Boston, and the evening was spent quietly reading a South Sea island story in his suite in the tower of Memorial Hall. So the annual fever has come and gone and left only a few bruises and the regret that he had not had the sense to buy earmuffs...