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...casts such a gloomy aspect that the Romantic Poet Théophile Gautier called it the "granite debauch of Spain's Tiberius." Even its floor plan reflects a grim occasion. The monastery is named in honor of a humble 3rd century deacon who was burned alive on a gridiron by his Roman torturers. San Lorenzo, it is said, calmly instructed the Romans: "This side's done. You can turn me over now." His coolness under trial won him a lasting place in Spanish devotion...
...Quentin. By that victory he turned the tide to bring the Spanish Empire to its highest glory. Because it took place on Lorenzo's feast day, Philip decided to put up a monument to the saint, the empire and God - built on the plan of a. gigantic gridiron...
...fall of 1934--the fresh-man of the class of 1938--after the college term had settled into routine, that Harvard and Princeton smoothed over an eight year breach in athletic relations, meeting on the gridiron for the first time since 1926. Back in the 'twenties there has been a lot of haggling about whether Princeton really deserved as important a place as Yale on the crimson's fall schedule, but the straw that broke the Tiger's back had come from students rather than administration. On the morning of the 1926 game the then-mighty Lampoon published a special...
...Manhattan, the landmark that gave Times Square its name-the 59-year-old, 26 story Times Tower-has been sold to the Allied Chemical Corp., which will skin it of all its bony character and reskin it with a well-ribbed gridiron, making it look like a hundred other Manhattan towers...
Outplayed from the very beginning, coach Bruce Munro's stickmen soon learned that all-Ivy quarterback Bill King is just as effective on a lacrosse field as he is on the gridiron. The big midfielder scored twice in the first half and finished the game with four goals and an assist...