Word: craning
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...decisions will be made a lot easier if Harvard hits the way it did yesterday, of course. Harvard chased UMass’ most effective starter, Mike Crane, out of the game with a 14-hit barrage. Streaking junior Bryan Hale led the way with a 4-for-5 outing. Walsh singled out Lentz’s at bat in the top of the ninth with two men on as evidence of how much confidence the offense has instilled in the coaching staff...
Aaron Copland called it Ballet for Martha, as in Martha Graham. But she named it after a Hart Crane poem. Her ballet told the tale of a young marriage blossoming in pioneer-era Pennsylvania. In Copland's music, listeners heard not just an evocation of the Appalachians; they also heard the sound of a nation blossoming. The immediate impact is all the more amazing given the spareness of the composition. Framed by the Shaker folk song Simple Gifts, the music was originally scored for just 13 instruments because of the limited size of the orchestra pit at its opening venue...
Cast for the monastery in the 17th and 18th centuries, the bells were bought by industrialist Charles Crane in the 1920s after the Russian government threatened to melt them down, and were given to University President A. Lawrence Lowell as a gift...
...Friday in West Warwick, the inferno's violence had given way to an even more haunting industry, as the town went about the task of burying so many of its own. At the ruins, the clamshell crane shoveling away debris stopped every few minutes as yet another body was found. City-owned vans carried the remains of victims to the morgue, because West Warwick did not have enough ambulances or hearses...
...Crane, a Harvard graduate, then presented the 18 bells to University President A. Lawrence Lowell as a gift in 1930, when Lowell House was under construction as part of the College’s new residential plan...