Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Northeastern team, until then completely overwhelmed, rallied and threatened a come-back. It's steady teamwork broke up into individual plays, marked by long shots and see-saw runs, from one end of the floor to the other. Northeastern's scoring was evenly distributed no one player being outstanding...
...class according to the election returns given out last night by W. R. Harper '30, retiring, president of the class. Holbrook prepared at Newton High School and has been prominent in Harvard athletics as center on this year's University hockey team. A year ago he was a substitute back on the University football team but was prevented from playing this year because of injuries...
Besides the manuscripts, Sir Aurel Stein and myself have brought back from that same cave hundreds of paintings on silk, on hemp, and on paper, embroideries, early book bindings, printed books, and images, most of them of local make, but some also of high artistic value and which had been made at the capital or in some great centers. The prints are the earliest prints in existence and the paintings almost the only Chinese paintings prior to the eleventh century and about the date of which there cannot be any doubt
...Rosslers ever had. In Vienna young Ernestine, nearly grown up, tried first for opera but the director said "Mein Gott, what a face!" suggested a sewing machine. Only the roughneck father was glad. His Tini should have a decent career. But she fooled him, went to Dresden, brought back a contract signed by the King...
...Reszkes and Ernestine Schumann-Heink. But when Impresario Maurice Grau left, Schumann-Heink left too, went into a comic opera called Love's Lottery. Then it was that Schumann died, that she married her secretary William Rapp "for protection" for herself, eight children. Grand opera took her back. She made music history in Austria, Germany, France, England, the U. S. with her Frecka, Erda, Magdelena, Brangane, Walträute. She divorced Rapp. Then came the War. One son died for Germany. The others fought for the U. S. So did Schumann-Heink, singing. Now she is on a farewell...