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...paintings on exhibition, only four were attributed directly to Leonardo. The rest, wavering between chill sentimentality and brown gloom, either anticipated or copied the Master's favorite tricks: chiaroscuro (strong contrasts of mingled light and shadow), sfumato (blurring of outlines to suggest space), geometrically involved compositions and ambiguous half-smiles...
These are the dog days of the crew season, when exam period and a long gap between races combine to give Newell boathouse an unwonted air of manorial gloom. At 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, usually a time of crowded confusion, Coach Bolles could be found sitting alone in his upstairs office, poring over the records of his former crews...
Four days later, the largest flotilla of shells ever to compete in one regatta-32 in all-lined up on Lake Onondaga, N.Y. for the 2,000-meter Eastern sprint championships for varsity, junior varsity and freshmen. With the traditional coach's gloom, Tom Bolles said: "In a short race, some egg beater might win." But when the six varsity finalists (Pennsylvania, Navy, Cornell, Yale, Princeton and Harvard) got off the mark, it was clear that no egg beater was going to steal the race...
Thank you for bringing the situation to the attention of the College. There can be no improvement in the situation unless the potential readers and producers of the Album know what is going on. You have helped to dispell some of the gloom of ignorance of Album affairs and problems. Thomas J. Johnston...
Britain turned on its street lights again last week after nearly a decade of nocturnal gloom. Hoping to entertain 130,000 U.S. guests and 430,000 from Europe, the British government, which had taken over most hotels during the war, had turned almost all of them back again. Clothing was at last unrationed, but not petrol: visitors would get the 1948 allowance of 600 miles for the first two weeks, 400 for the second, plus enough gas to go to &. from their furthest destination. Meat was scarce, British cooking was as dull as ever, and prices were comparatively high...