Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upset victory Saturday afternoon at West Point, the Army riders downed the Crimson polo team 6-4 with a two goal final chukker...
Playing for the Crimson were Ben Forbes at one, Dillingham at two, Skiddy von Stade at three, and Pete Rumsey, back. Forbes tallied the other point--for Harvard...
...that this opposition has not extended further than to specific individuals. I have found no anti-Semitic trend or temper in any of my conferences. . . . Because the last two elected editors do not happen to be Wisconsin-born, the feeling has grown that they represent an eastern class-struggle point of view rather than the liberal Wisconsin tradition...
Says Sullivan: "From all the passions which give direction to most men's lives, sexual love, paternity, friendship, citizenship, religious aspirations, the desire for fame, the desire to benefit humanity, Newton seems to have been free. From the point of view of most men his life, in spite of its prodigious achievements, would seem pointless. . . . His life was one long meditation, but his interest in the subject of his meditations was exhausted in the act of understanding...
...disappeared for weeks at a time on camping trips with gypsies. He once left a train at Marseille and traveled all the way back into Spain to paint a girl he had seen from the train window. The satyrlike old Bohemian, John Bidlake, in Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point was immediately accepted in Bloomsbury as a fictionalization of Augustus John, minus the real artist's wild whiskers and his trick of looking fierce in one eye and hunted in the other...