Word: display
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This afternoon the Freshman track team will have to display unusual talent to down the Phillips Exeter Academy athletes. A squad of 41, headed by Coach O'Connell and Coach Teschner, will leave on the 1.15 o'clock train for Exeter bent on retrieving their laurels lost at Andover last Saturday. Although the Exeter team appears not to be quite up to the standard set by their rivals, their entries contain many experienced athletes, bound to threaten...
...primarily to reproduce the entire resources of the Commonwealth and thereby stimulate trade. The United Kingdom, Ireland, India, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the Colonies each have special pavilions in which to display their natural, commercial, industrial and artistic resources. One of the features of the Exhibition is the Palace of Engineering, covering an acreage six times the size of Trafalgar Square, in which some 300 engineering firms will have displays, and upon which the entire Exhibition will depend for its power...
...Such a display of friendliness on the part of two supposedly hostile or unsympathetic groups would certainly have warmed the heart and cheered the soul of Carlyle, although he would have noted sourly that they foregathered merely to partake of food. Had he been present at that most unprecedented luncheon he might have had reason to doubt his theory that England was slowly being gnawad apart by the two groups, to her impending destruction...
Harriet Hammond was happily cast as Theresa, and Helen Howe as the Vicaress supplied a very welcome element of humor. The other members of the cast too, were well chosen; they made one wish to see them in a happier vehicle for the display of their talents...
...recognizing another quality to which President Lowell referred--a readiness for combat. I look back upon my life as a boy sometimes engaged in those rough and tumble fights which we used to have on Boston Common, and I recognized there at a tender age that I did display considerable enjoyment in fighting...