Word: brier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...member of Princeton's highbrow Institute for Advanced Study, has done much better. In a newly published book of bold erudition (The Medici Chapel; Princeton University Press, $20) De Tolnay interprets the entire chapel in the light of a single theme. Deep inside De Tolnay's brier patch of facts and shrewd guesses lies new evidence that Michelangelo, like all great artists, was a genius in mind and spirit as well as in eye and hand...
...yard breaststroke: Won by Verdeur (LaSalle); second, Schmidt (Temple); third, DeForrest (Penn.); fourth, Urstadt (Dartmouth); fifth, Brier (Brown); sixth, D'Arcy (Temple). Winning time...
...moustaches together in a back room of Matthews Hall and founded "The Harvard Lampoon, or Cambridge Charivari Illustrated, Humorous, Etc." One of the earliest issues--a collector's item if that's your idea of a good time--carried, in addition to advertisements for "Silk Smoking Caps, Japanese" and "Brier-wood and Meershaum Pipes, Gambier Bowls, and Toilet Articles," and pen-and-ink drawing of two typical Harvard students ensconced in a gaslit chamber. One gentleman, collared in celluloid, is reclining in a lace-fringed chair, smoking a catarrh cigarette and casually flicking ashes into a brass spittoon. The other...
...tightest contest of the evening was between Crimson Captain Chuck Hoelzer and Milt Brier of the visitors in the 200 breaststroke, as the two battled it out all the way to the last ten yards before Brier crept ahead to win by two strokes...
...other Bruin threats are in the middle distances--Joe Patrell in the backstroke and Brier in the breaststroke. Both of these have turned in better meet times in their races than have the Crimson's Tommy Woods and Chuck Hoelzer; so these events should be close. Brier's time against the Engineers was 2:31, considerably under that turned in by Hoelzer...