Word: faked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government seems to get poor results at times the blame should be placed on "foreign plotters.'' A public shooting of all those condemned to death, an execution witnessed by all the occidental correspondents in Moscow would have done much to convince doubters that the trial was no fake...
...then shifts into an unbalanced line, usually one man on one side of the center and five on the other side. On regular formations Booth crouches behind the center and takes the ball from him; on kick formations he is back. The Eli offensive centers around reverse and fake reverse plays, most of which go around the long end of the line, with an occasional reverse play around the short end, usually unsuccessful. Most effective of the plays is the one that sends Booth around the right side on a long end sweep with practically the whole Eli team interfering...
Boston. Edward Jackson Holmes, director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, paid $35,000 for two tiny wood panel paintings, supposedly by Giambattista Cima de Conegliano. They were proven fakes. For his two Coneglianos and $85,000 he was offered a Velasquez portrait of a man, which hung proudly in the museum for several weeks. A fake also, it is now ignominiously in the cellar...
...scare of "fake" was thrown into the art world a few days ago when the Boston newspapers revealed that the Boston Museum of Fine Arts had been fleeced of nearly $100,000 for spurious paintings among which was a highly prized canvas supposed to have been by El Greco. As responsibility for acceptance to the Fogg Museum rests with a large jury rather than with a single man, the possibilities of such accident are reduced to a minimum...
...Army line seemed inadequate when Harvard got its off-tackle plays and line plunges working in the two middle periods, energized by a backfield giant named Jack Crickard. But in the first period Eddie Herb, son of a non-commissioned officer in the regular Army, spun through on a fake reverse that was the only score of the game. Army 6, Harvard...