Word: lined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crews got off from the starting line and rowed over the first half mile of the course with all three crews abreast. Here Pearson's shell started to pull away gradually as rougher water was encountered, until it had a length and a half margin over Sturges' crew just beyond the Harvard Bridge. The strokes dropped to 29 and 28 as the water grew more troublesome, and the three boats continued downstream and across the finish line with the Sophomores three lengths ahead of the Junior eight, and Lawrence's Sophomore crew another length in the rear. The winning crew...
Back of that is his birth (1818) in Rhenish Prussian Treves, son of a Jewish lawyer, with a long line of learned rabbis behind the lawyer. His years at the universities of Bonn and Berlin were studious, lazy-livered, undramatic. He took his Ph. D., fought no duels. He married the daughter of a high government official. His interest always lay in philosophy and the proletariat. After journalistic ventures in revolutionary twilight zones in Cologne, Paris, Brussels, he fled with his wife, three children and faithful servant "Lenchen," to London, world's warmest haven for refugees...
...Belasco's Heart of Maryland. . . . One adoring saint on the right is holding a violin . . . another is holding a baby that looks rather like another violin. . . . Although he calls them music and they were designed for the walls of a music room, there is nowhere visible a melodic line. . . . Let us say that it is a fairly good uprooted modern musical chord slurred and fumbled by a maestro who partook of too many cocktails the previous night...
...partial outlet for students of the Eastman School of Music, Curtis Institute will thus offer unique opportunity for students to start in the operatic field. Imagine the feelings of college baseball players if their coach should arrange to put a Ruth, Cobb or Hornsby into the line-up with them. Just so must feel the singing students of Curtis Institute at the prospect...
Mustering forces to defend the national honor, the American Legian prepared to call the roll, Boston dowagers girded their armor to fall in line, daring debutantes atremble with excitement equipped themselves with stamps and awaited the word to blot from the invidious Artkino program the names of those who led the rest. Swelling the ranks, officers of commonwealth and of nation prepared to rush from points afar to insure the adequacy of the patriotic boycott on the one little Sovkino film and the one little theatre. Racing to the Hub of the revolutionary district, cabinet officials turned over in their...