Word: held
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 11 minutes in the opening period, Wesleyan held a 20-11 lead. The Cardinals had little difficulty in breaking through the varsity's man-for-man defense, and the Crimson offense was stymied by the Wesleyan zone. Even when the varsity shifted to a zone defense, the Cardinals still scored almost at will, and ran their lead to 27 to 17 before the Crimson put on an aggressive zone press...
...thousand and more years before the time of Christ, left no ruins of cities but only crude tombs crammed with weapons and splendid bronze harness equipage. Brundage's Indian Parvati is one of many he owns representing the Indian mountain goddess. (Some of the others, Brundage recalls, were held up as "pornographic" by U.S. customs.) Despite its elongated ears, topknot and neat mole like a third eye, Brundage's Buddha looks more classical than Oriental, shows that East and West can cooperate on the plane of art. When and if Brundage's conditions are met, San Francisco...
Post-Office Immortal. In his last years, Whistler was racked by debts, and fought a losing battle of telegraphic wits with Oscar Wilde. Whistler's best was the telegram he sent to the church where Wilde held his wedding: FEAR I MAY NOT BE ABLE TO REACH YOU IN TIME FOR THE CEREMONY. DON'T WAIT. Had he lived to his centenary (he died in 1903), the aristocratic Whistler would have been crushed by something far smaller than a telegram. His Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, as Whistler titled the portrait...
...where Gray wrote his Elegy, the one where, according to legend, Annie Laurie prayed for her lost lover, the one where Kipling was (possibly) inspired to write Recessional-and had them rebuilt in Forest Lawn. The churches were intended for funerals, but last year 183 weddings were held in Eaton's cemetery...
...project will be financed largely by rental from Smithsonian, a private company held in trust by the United States Congress. The remainder of the funds will be obtained from sources other than the Program for Harvard College, according to Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, assistant to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...