Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shown in public only once-at the exhibition of Spanish art in London in 1895. There is talk now that the Boston Museum of Fine Arts will buy it, give it a place beside two other El Grecos that hang there, "St. Dominic" and the Portrait of Fray Feliz Hortenzio Palavincio. These two are fine portraits; St. Martin is better. It is one of the most important works of a man whose intellect has had few equals among the minds of the world. Very little is known about El Greco. Even his name is in doubt; students believe that...
...Periodical Row, the "quality magazines", as Leon Whipple describes them in Survey Graphic, have been forced to reorganize and to adopt new taedes. The revolution has been on the whole successful from every point of view; the Atlantic Monthe Harper's and Scribner's have emerged from the fray with larger circulations and a new vitality. Brilliant covers and a lack of pictures have attracted fresh cohorts and won back many of the deserters. The chief factor, however, has been the growing belligerency and inquisitiveness of the magazines; no longer do they remain discreetly silent on religious, political and social...
Imagine that! I who have bought new shoes for all the little Forecasts out of my winnings on the Dartmouth game! I who, alone of the so-called experts, not only forecasted the winner of that fray correctly, but even broadcasted to my public the exact number of touchdowns it would take Dartmouth to beat us! And here was a CRIMSON candidate seeming to minimize my powers. But I answered him none the less with quiet courtesy, saying, "I have already made...
...University's future opponents in football will meet in a crucial encounter tomorrow, when Yale and Dartmouth do battle at New Haven. Since Dartmouth meets the University a week later, the outcome of the fray will be watched with keen interest, as giving a possible line or the relative strength of the University and the Elis...
...participants in yesterday's fray were evenly matched, and there were few prolonged advances. Faxon, McKinlock fullback, made the touchdown of the day on an end run after the only sustained offensive drive of the afternoon. Faxon also kicked goal...