Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...watchman, but for a week the case remained a mystery. Finally someone getting out of bed at six in the morning happened to look out of the window, and saw a boy crawling from under the building. Upon investigation the missing rug and overcoat were found stored away beneath the steps. Further investigation disclosed the fact that the boy had a home in Cambridge, but that he and his parents did not get along too well together, and that the boy had decided that "home was never like this"--especially when overcoats and rugs could be had for the taking...
...does include ignorant voters, and office-holders are chosen by people unable to discriminate between a whale and a jellyfish. But if a compulsory intelligence requirement is impossible there is an opening left. What cannot be done from authority above can be accomplished by spontaneous efforts at education from beneath. And here again the responsibility can be laid directly at the door of the college...
...invaded the Stadium for the first time since 1912, neither team showed any marked advantage. The heavy Dartmouth line repulsed the tremendous attacks of the Crimson backfield time and again, while the visitors' offence, with the exception of a brief and unsuccessful advance in the fourth period, was smothered beneath the University linesmen. In the aerial game, however, Coach Fisher's men obviously outshone their opponents, as it was the latter's weakness in this department that enabled Jenkins to block and recover the pass by Harris which resulted in the only touchdown of the afternoon. A protracted exchange...
Without any heralded ceremony the canvas hanging by the Widener room in the Library was drawn back and the pictures beneath unveiled,--John Sargent's tribute to the Harvard war dead...
...wounded soldier, bearing in his arms the figures of Death and Victory. Death is represented by a drooping figure enveloped in a black cape and hood, while Victory is a female form bearing branches of palm leaves, and held aloft by huge gray wings. On the ground beneath the feet of the three are the bodies of fallen soldiers. In the topmost section of the panel, Mr. Sargent has represented two archangels with trumpets proclaiming victory, while on scrolls flying from the trumpet heads are inscribed the words "Death and Victory...