Word: highspot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British secret service; suddenly; in London. Sir Basil dearly loved to read & write detective stories, led an adventuresome life himself. Son of a late Archbishop of York, he was successively a rancher in Iowa, Prime Minister of Tonga (Friendly Islands), Governor of Great Britain's famed Dartmoor Prison. Highspot of his career; tracking down Mata Hari, whom he described as a dowdy, middle-aged woman devoid of charm...
Featuring the 1937 book is an etching frontispiece, executed in drypoint by Charles Blessing of Boston. Another highspot in art-work is the Album's departure from the usual reprinting of familiar college scenes. Replacing these is a series of lithographs from unusual pencil sketches of the Houses--the WORK of the Russian artist, Constantin A. Pertzoff...
Braced with a contingent of three unbeaten grapplers, Yardling matmen, who with the Varsity face the hardest battle of the year, have lost only one encounter, with Andover, have rolled over M.I.T., Brown, Exeter and Tufts in lop-sided contests. Highspot of the Eli's season was a 26-6 victory over the Princeton yearlings...