Word: hinde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...History of the Hasty Pudding Club Theatricals," now being exhibited in Cambridge, contains informal glimpses into the college careers of Harvard graduates who have long since become famous, Covering the shows since 1844, the book proves that many a student who wore a ballet skirt, or capered as the hind legs of a horse, may survive to become celebrated in the world of arts or affairs after graduating from Pudding theatricals...
...with his small son and Captain Bill Fagan when he saw a long-drawn battle between a mako shark and a broadbill. Time after time the swordfish aimed its lethal snout at the shark, but each time the shark was too quick, raked the swordfish's hind end until "the sea looked like shredded wheat." As the dying swordfish was being pulled into Capt. Fagan's boat, the shark attacked again, was harpooned to prove the story...
...than Man o' War. His girth behind the shoulders was 81 in. against Man o' War's 71¾ in. Alive, Phar Lap weighed approximately 1,200 lb.; Man o' War, 1,160 Ib. Other measurements: front leg from knee, 20 in.; hind leg from hock, 25 in.; length of neck, 36 in.; length of body...
Throughout Professor Hind is thorough and scholarly, but never so technical that the book becomes incomprehensible or uninteresting to a novice. The format of the book is admirable, the printing excellent, and the hundred or more illustrations beautifully reproduced...
Professor Hind's constant aim in these lectures, delivered when he held the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry in 1930-31, was not to add to the general sum of knowledge about Rembrandt; but to stimulate and further enjoyment in his works. And for this reason the lectures avoid the stiff formality of a thesis, and present an attitude as delightful as it is rare toward the work of the greatest of the Flemish school...