Word: brush
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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These fragments, hastily executed in pencil, brush, pen, or water-color, present the most graphic pictorial record of the Yankee in France that we remember to have seen. It is of slight importance that, in such drawings as "Home" and "Her Boy Too", we can trace plainly the Style of Poulbot: or that the wash drawings entitled, "The Gardener's Cottage", "Toul Sector Days", and "The Town of Cuffles", remind us forcibly of Bruce Bairnsfather. The fact is that, missing alike the delicate expressiveness of the French draughtsman and the whimsicality of the Britisher, Mr. Baldridge strikes a note...
...second boat was reinforced by its captain today, as G. L. Batchelder '19 returned last night with his injured knee entirely recovered. He rowed at his old position at number four in the second, which lost a short brush to the Freshman shell in both morning and afternoon practice...
...their return from this short preliminary stretch, the crews lined up for a half-mile brush which ended rather abruptly when the Freshmen, having drawn too near the Western shore, fouled the second University boat. All the oarsmen were in the best of condition, and, considering the fact that today's event was merely an informal warming up, it was considered very satisfactory...
...text books that have mutely coached the student to success are due to find themselves neglected. Their owner is busily engaged in making plans for the summer vacation in which their presence could only be discordant. It is also doubtful whether the janitor or the "goodie" will desire to brush up on "Gov", "Ec", or even "Phil." What, then, is to be done with these former companions of midnight hours...
...very start the 1921 oarsmen got away to a slight lead, but were passed in the next few strokes by the Junior shell. The latter crew, maintaining a high stroke, gained steadily on the Sophomores throughout the first mile, while the Senior eight, after a short brush with 1921, dropped well to the rear. As the boats neared Harvard Bridge the leaders were a length to the good. Both coxswains called for a spurt, and the Juniors added a half length to their advantage before running into the rough water of the Basin. From that moment until the final sprint...