Word: glamourously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whereas the accumulative glamour of past meetings cannot be said to drape today's contest in the robe of tradition, there yet exists that keen rivalry and high interest which is always present when teams of manifest training and ability take to the field. Questions of expediency to one side, there is an undeniable zest to intersectional hostilities which can only be accounted for by the novelty of the contrast presented by strange names and different methods meeting and clashing with those more familiar...
...through the field of science there exist such opposed arguments, yet a deep faith in the infallibility of scientific investigation clings to minds that have long since rejected faith in the infallibility of the Church. Critical perception is dulled by the glamour of famous names; so that the educated world, from being priest-ridden, has become expert-ridden. The coming of Dr. de Sitter is an exemplary occasion for the expression of scientific agnosticism...
Epicurean delights during the football season are usually rather rare. Thrills of the grandstand, the bands, the crowds, to the old-timer begin to lose their glamour after a succession of years. But occasionally the powers that be introduce a spectacle that causes the 'ardents', and who isn't, to sigh contentedly much the same way that the lover of the inner linings of his constitution sighs for his special cheese or fish paste...
There is no doubt that at Harvard varsity football is a big business proposition. For the outside world it is surrounded with all the glamour of headlines, photographs, exaggerated stories, and tabloids which the public demands. But--and this is what really counts--it has ceased to be a game, and a gentleman's game. Undergraduates play it because they like it, and because it is one of the finest sports on earth, and because it has not been spoiled for them as it has for those of many other colleges...
...Glamour invests the names of music's greatest pedagogs. But the routine work of running musical institutions is usually in the hands of persons who, though able and efficient, are not well-known to the general public. Such a man is Henry Bellamann, 49, who was appointed dean of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia last week. Tall, dark, long-haired, he is a capable pianist and lecturer, was dean from 1907 to 1924 of the School of Fine Arts at Chicora College for Women in Columbia, S. C. During the year 1928-29 he substituted for Professor George...