Word: crowning
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...Crimson expects another Ivy crown but clearly looks beyond the Eight to establish itself as a national-level power. Nothing exemplifies that mentality better than the story Walsh tells of his first Ivy League Championship Series...
...sculptor cast his ideas into clay, creating models for 10 over life-size marble angels, each carrying an instrument of Christ's Passion. Of the 10 angels, eight were carved by sculptors under Bernini's direction, and Bernini's own work was confined to the angels holding the Crown of Thorns and the Superscription. When the Pope visited Bernini's studio, he was so impressed with Bernini's two angels that he declared them too beautiful for outdoor display. He commissioned two replacements in their stead, and Bernini's marble angels remained in the sculptor's house until 1729, when...
...symmetrical antithesis to the Angel Holding the Superscription is the Angel Holding the Crown of Thorns. Though Bernini himself sketched the clay ideas for several of the angels that now adorn the Ponte Sant' Angelo, the marble statues themselves were carved under his direction by his pupil Lazzaro Morelli. Another of the clay sketches for the Tiber River bridge project, the Angel Holding the Tabernacle is an exquisite metaphor in terracotta for the power of divine influence...
With a relatively high Rating Percentage Index (RPI)--Harvard's 75th place in the RPI rankings was higher than seven other tournament qualifiers--the winningest regular season in Harvard history and its third consecutive Ivy League crown, the Crimson expected to garner a 14 or 15 seed...
Neither as King Edward, nor later last week as Prince Edward, did the eldest son of the Royal House enter London. This idol of the British masses vanished, and after a little space other idols (for such King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and crown princess Elizabeth will soon be) were substituted. The basic English truth which emerged is that the Kingdom long ago became and is today neither a democracy nor a monarchy but an efficient oligarchy. Its symbol is the Crown, but the really effective British crowns are the top hats worn by Stanley Baldwin and a few hundred...