Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bach has been a bugaboo to many pianists, many audiences. Pianists must play him for their prestige whether or not they are able. Audiences squirm, remember unhappily their own five-finger exercises, their struggles with the metronome...
...consistently strong line and a quartet of brilliant running backs, which have carried them through the season so far without defeat, the University Freshmen will enter-their contest with the Eli Freshman eleven on Saturday rated as favorites. But the experience of the past few years points a finger of doubt at any pre-game rating of the two first year teams...
...Night is pretty bad. It tells of a murder in a Maine hunting lodge; points the grisly finger of suspicion at nearly everybody and finally solves the situation by showing that there was a radio transmitter in the room when the murder happened, and the police were listening intently all the time. All this produces an alternating current of shiver and laugh, but none too strong a current...
...difficult to stop is the cut back end runs with four interferers, but most dangerous of all is the long forward pass. Every year, the Big Green team finds a back who can throw a ball 50 yards and at least one end who can stretch up his finger tips while on the dead run and take into them the flying pigskin. The Harvard line must tell the story, for once the passing game gets under way, touchdowns are never more than one play off. It is safe to say that if Dartmouth wins tomorrow, the play that will bring...
...Chicagoan, ignorant, hurried up to another, brandishing his paper. He pointed at the item with an angry finger...