Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Green's record shattering leap in the broad jump was made the one time he hit the take-off board. On previous trys, he jumped from at least a foot behind...
...time in the 45-yard hurdles, 5 4-5 seconds, equalled the meet record. For a moment Donovan of Dartmouth appeared to have caught the Crimson captain, but Green pulled away safely. In the 50-yard dash his beautiful start settled the race immediately, and the three Dartmouth men snatched the other points from Cornell's captain, Bob Linders...
...draw. Spanish party coalition lines are so loosely drawn that, although the "Left" appeared to have won 253 seats, and the "Right" 220, there was no assurance that a vote of confidence could be won by the bilious Left Republican who suddenly found himself again Premier, sickly-green-complexioned Don Manuel Azaña. The President of the Republic, uneasy old Don Niceto Alcála Zamora, was not in the least sure that the unexpected ballot victory of the Left might not enflame the Right's scheming would-be Dictator, Don Jose Maria Gil Robles, to attempt...
...buck-toothed King Carol II of Rumania in Paris reviewed France's Garde Républicaine. Later in a more comfortable cap, he received from France's oldest living Marshal Franchet D'Espérey, France's highest military decoration, the yellow and green Médaille Militaire, awarded only to commanders of divisions -and to private soldiers who have won it under fire...
Venus and the Lute Player, finished when the world's longest-living (99) painter was about 83, is in Titian's "yellow & blue" period with overtones of the preceding "red & green." No diet-disciplined Hollywood beauty, the great-hipped, heavy-stomached Venus lies on a violet couch while a Cupid crowns her with flowers, and a boyish nobleman serenades her with a lute. The paint job is superb, the composition dramatic. Credited with being the first intimations of 18th Century Impressionism are the blue mountains, the wide vague plain in the background...