Word: rim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work began on the Harvard stands and has progressed to the middle of the bowl, which will probably not be very full for the first-two games. On that and a large wooden shute leading up to the rim of the Stadium has been set up carry off the debris of the repairs...
Long (6 ft., 1¾ in.), thin (156 lb.), blond, with horned-rim glasses, Ben Eastman lacks the appearance of a champion runner. He looked even less like one the day he won the quarter-mile in a class track meet when he was a Stanford freshman. He ran in sneakers. But his time was 51 sec. Stanford's seasoned track coach, Robert Lyman ("Dink") Templeton, was so much impressed that he took Eastman in hand, had him go away for the summer to put on weight. Last year, running in the intercollegiates for the first time, Eastman lost...
...authors, in his poverty-stricken days Shaw rarely lived within his means. Once, instead of buying a cheap bowler he paid the top price for a top hat, had to wear it so long that "in its last days it had to be worn tail foremost, as the front rim had become too limp to lever the hat off successfully when he had to salute a lady...
...actual, original cup is a common silver vessel of poor and crude workmanship. The rim is broken in places, as if fragments had been removed as keepsakes. It is contained in an outer shell, whose workmanship establishes the antiquity of the Chalice and is the basis of the theory that the cup used by Christ and his disciples at the Last Supper was preserved and, perhaps several years after the Supper, fittingly decorated. The outer shell is a sheathing of elaborately sculptured silver, its gilded decorations carved in an openwork known in ancient times as opus interrasile...
...years old. Black and white after-dinner coffee cups and saucers have also been ordered. Adams House will have a picture of the Yard on its crockery similar to the one now used at Lowell House. Kirkland is having a place with a red baud on the rim and the House seal slightly off the center, while Leverett is to have a design especially adapted from one of the famous Spoke patterns. Winthrop House will have one similar to Eliot House, the design being in green...