Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tentative schedule has been drawn up, including five dual meets with rival institutions prior to the semi-finals of the Northern Division of the Fencing League to be held at New Haven March 18 and 19. Yale, Dartmouth, M. I. T. and Columbia will be the University's opponent's in this contest. The winning team will fence at the Intercollegiate Meet at New York April 1 and 2. Yale, with an exceedingly, strong veteran team will be the favorite to represent the Northern Division of the League...
...location picked and his plans drawn for some 40 buildings in Spanish-Moorish architecture, President Lieber decided that he wanted speedy construction. He called in. contractors, got their estimates, selected the Austin Company. This concern has branch offices throughout the country and specializes on unit construction, that is, buildings whose parts are standardized as to size and materials. This contract...
Victorianism? It may well be. Yet in these days of diets and derricks and dynamos the pleasure of seeing in the nominal, phenomenal--or what you will an actual Victoria, drawn by an actual, docile Victorian horse is, in no unreal sense, real, vital, lasting...
...started at a sound so strange, long drawn and musically wild and unearthly, that . . . I stood gazing up at the clouds whence that voice dropped like a wing. High aloft in the crosstrees was that mad Gay-Header, Tashtego. His body was reaching eagerly forward, his hand stretched out like a wand, and at brief sudden intervals he continued his cries. To be sure the same sound was that very moment perhaps being heard all over the seas, from hundreds of whalemen's lookouts, perched as high in the air; but from few of those lungs could that accustomed...
...Boston, when he died in 1771, bequeathed to the College 1,500 pounds for the foundation of a "Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory." The Corporation in rendering its thanks for the donation, asked the executors of the will to permit a full length portrait of Boylston to be drawn, at the expense of the College, and placed in Harvard Hall, with those of Hollis and Hancock. The painting, which was executed by Copley, is considered one of the most successful and finished examples of the work of that distinguished artist. The list of holders of the Boylston Professorships includes such...