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...needed only a 38 on the last nine holes to win. Knowledge of his apparently impregnable position made him nervous. He had a six at the twelfth, a five on the fifteenth. Needing three par-fours now for a tie, he dubbed a twelve-inch putt on the sixteenth, took a five instead of a four. This blunder, which would have destroyed the poise of most golfers, appeared to invigorate Von Elm. He played the seventeenth in four, put a mashie shot 15 feet wide of the pin on the eighteenth green and sank the putt, almost angrily...
When the fighters touched hands at the beginning of the fifteenth, Stribling's face was smeared with blood, his mouth was cut and swollen, his left eye had begun to draw together bruised and dark like the halves of a musselshell. He tried to clinch immediately but after two minutes of fighting Schmeling landed the right he had been trying for all through the fight. Stribling fell on his face, got up when the referee had counted nine. He tried to clinch again. When the referee saw that Stribling, leaning in, was supported almost entirely by the punches Schmeling...
...Warburg '20, noted collector and connaisseur, has loaned three tapestries from the "Credo" series, of which only 15 items are known to be in existence, one in the Fine Arts Museum of Boston. They date from the late Fifteenth Century, and are of the best type of Flemmish workmanship...
Representative work of the Itaham and German artists of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth centuries, some pieces by Rembrandt and Nanteuil. Fifteenth century English etchings, including Whistler and Meryon, and Nineteenth century lithographs, are to constitute the collection, which is owned by the Fogg Museum. Especial attention has been called to some excellent specimens of Schenganer's later work...
...purely artificial distinctions. It certainly is only a diseased sort of academic mind which could object violently to inclusions in the same structure of rooms in Gothic, Renaissance, and Colonial styles per se. Certain juxtapositions could be aesthetically bad. But it is absurd to suppose that decorations of the fifteenth and the seventeenth centuries are necessarily inharmonious...