Word: crossings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paintings was a Crucifixion, painted by Piero della Francesca (circa 1406-92) on a tiny wood panel (14" x 16"). Into a golden sky, grievously cracked with age, were lifted the cross, the scarlet banners of the soldiery. Humans and horses were drawn with that rude simplicity of Italian Primitives which is pronounced charming by modern sophisticates. This painting, according to gallery officials, had been appraised by experts at $800,000. The other, a similarly styled Madonna and Child by Fra Filippo Lippi (circa 1406-69), was said to have been appraised...
...hedgerows of the U. S., as well as the fashionable avenues, have been combed to find a bishop coadjutor for the Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania. Four were asked, four refused. Rector Henry Knox Sherrill of Boston's Trinity Church preferred to stay in Boston. Bishop Edward Makin Cross of Spokane, who was supposed to have relations in Philadelphia who would make that city attractive to him, preferred to stay in Spokane. Rector Russell Bowie of Grace Church, Manhattan, declined next, and then Dean William Scarlett of Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis. The situation was beginning to suggest that Irish...
...Mardulier '30 is back in harness again for the first time since the Brown-Holy Cross meet, while R. H. O'Connell '30 has been topping the timbers speedily in practice...
...javelin throw, he is almost certain to get in at least one heave which should better 185 feet, but whether his weak arm would permit more than one such throw is doubtful. V. M. Harding '31, who won this event in the triangular meet with Brown and Holy Cross two weeks ago with a throw of 181 feet, 9 inches is good for at least a second in the event, since the leading Indian spear-man averages less than 175 feet. In the dual meet last Saturday the Dartmouth man won the event with a throw of 168 feet, with...
Coaches, track followers, and Yale will have their eyes turned on the Stadium this Saturday afternoon when Harry Hillman of Dartmouth brings his squad of runners and field men to give battle to the Crimson entries. Harvard, with an easy triumph over Holy Cross and Brown, and the Hanoverians, with the Syracusan scalps in their belts, have an even chance to win according to the rival coaches. Whatever the final outcome may be, there is little doubt that the keenest competition will be the order...