Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dramatic canvases of small Southern towns and cotton country, is now at work on a picture called Judgment Day which will contain no less than 500 figures. An obviously gifted draughtsman, McCrady gets his luminous effects by "under-painting," working in transparent color glazes on a warm, umber ground. Tender, fully imagined, though not profound, his Negro paintings appear as authentically melodious as the Kansas paintings of John Steuart Curry are authentically robust...
...time the fourth game of the World Series started last week in Manhattan's Polo Grounds, about the last thing anyone expected of the New York Giants was a batting spree. In each of the preceding games the Giants had eked out one run while the New York Yankees had ground out the humiliating totals of eight, eight and five. Attendance, which had started out at the Yankee Stadium with 61,000 was down to 45,000 as the two teams trotted out onto the field for what everyone expected would be the last game of the dullest...
That Harvard has a definite chance to win will not be disputed. Harlow has instructed the team in a really brilliant passing attack mixed with a substantial amount of razzle-dazzle along the ground. The chances that the Midshipmen will be completely blinded by the tricky offense are certainly good...
...other hand the Navy power has a potent weapon in their running attack. Through the line the Midshipmen are sure to gain ground. Last Saturday the not-so-terribly good Brown team put on a sustained drive against Harvard which culminated in a score. Navy is almost sure to get one or two touchdowns this way, and it will be up to Harvard to offset this advantage with a pair or more of their...
Early in the first period Weller of Winthrop got off an excellent punt, while Hindle, playing quarter, did some ground-gaining passing. At the quarter the ball was squarely in the middle of the field...