Word: brush
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will there be this summer to place the favorite dress pumps in the waste-basket, and hide the only white scarf behind the steam pipes? Who will there be to diminish the stock of handkerchiefs and read the letters from home? Who will there be to brush the cobwebs from the picture of Sir Galahad into the cigar humidor? Life will be barren indeed. Who will there be to pick up what the squads left about...
...Bacon and Mr. Rogers also deserve great credit for their work with pen and brush. The Lampoon has always had a high artistic standard. This reached the height of its glory in the Yale Game number for 1915, and the present board, if given time, could doubtless produce something to excel or even surpass that production...
...three University eights, however, took a snappy row down stream. On the way back there was a short brush between the first and second shells, in which the second had the advantage as far as Harvard Bridge, but in the end the first crew drew ahead. The rowing was not quite as smooth as usual, and the uncertainty of the international situation seems to be having an effect on the men. The seating was as follows...
...have both the great football contests on the same day was embarrassing, but although it was impossible to be at the Brush Stadium in this city and the Yale Bowl at New Haven at the same time, there was no complaint of diminished attendance at either. The crowds were enormous, and both games were inspiring, Yale won. After four successive and deplorable defeats, with not even a touchdown to brag about, Yale beat the confident Harvard team by a score of 6 to 3, upset all the betting calculations, and restored one of the universities' glories. Harvard can stand...
...Every ravine, every grove of trees, every secluded spot was packed to the limit with guns and shells, covered with canvas painted in the queer brown, green and black futurist style to avoid detection. Even white horses had to succumb to the brush of this futurist artist. Aeroplane hangars went up with astounding rapidity and French machines multiplied just as rapidly. The French control of the air during the last and vital month of preparation was one of the outstanding features of the whole thing. French planes hovered over the supply trains and bases, French planes swept across the lines...