Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found that a hard dry piece of clay when compressed becomes soft mud because clay is made up of minute mineral particles and voids filled with water. Compression gradually forces the water out, the rate of consolidation depending on the depth of the strata and the weight supported. A classic example of the subsidence is the Tower of Pisa, which furnishes fairly accurate data on the factors of weight and shape. Mistakes in foundation engineering are responsible for more damage and loss of life than all other causes combined...
...teams that will fight out the annual classic on this field tomorrow both seem confident of victory, but the Elis' fighting enthusiasm appear to have been dulled by the long ordeal of a week ago. Both physically and mentally the Blue is far off the peak which it reached on the eve of the clash with the Tiger, while Harvard's young team impressed observers with its optimism and cheerfulness as it ran through a skeleton practice today...
...spectator is concerned, and the only thing that can stop it from sliding into a season of shame is a victory over Eli Yale. Thus it is that Eddie Casey is already concentrating all his efforts and those of his staff on the approach of the annual classic, and threatening New Hampshire has been brushed aside as unworthy of much consideration when such a crisis in Blue will roll into town only a week behind...
...belief that poets, to be audible at all, must speak in an original voice. Poet Millay's originality lies not in a surprisingly exact vocabulary but in the fainter, pleasanter flavor of language reminiscent of poetry-at-large. Though her studied verse sometimes sounds too consciously traditional, such classic artifice as the following will have charm for most readers...
...Another classic example of colonial architecture open for inspection is the Apthrop House on Plympton Street, built in 1760, known as the "Bishops Palace," quarters of Lieutenant General "Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne during the Revolution, and now the Master's lodging for Adams House...