Word: rips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's Royal Academy had a new president. At 71, red-faced Sir Alfred Munnings, a rip-snorting conservative and painter of fine horseflesh, had resigned. Into his strait-laced boots last week stepped a 70-year-old Irish portraitist named Sir Gerald Kelly. As befitted a president of the huffy, stuffy R. A., Sir Gerald was on the conservative side too, but he expressed his views more gently than Sir Alfred had. To Sir Alfred, modern art was "damned nonsense" (TIME, May 9). Sir Gerald's judgment: "Some good, some bad and some indifferent, and some . . . danged...
...Rip Engle, Brown coach: "Yale will be favored--more backs and in better condition. Lines are about even but Harvard is hurt though it may rise to the occasion...
Brown, beaten about and generally abused by most of her football playmates up until the very recent past, has a fairly capable team this year. This became evident shortly after Saturday's game started, as Rip Engle's able young men immediately put the Harvards in an unenviable position and kept the upper hand for the rest of the afternoon. They ultimately...
...Rip Engle, Brown coach, yesterday said that his 242 pound tackle Don Colo played the best game Saturday that any Brown man has played in his eight years on the coaching staff...
Princeton's blocking along the line of scrimmage was very potent against a heavier Rutgers line. Both Tiger halfbacks could rip off tackle without being touched before they reached the secondary. The center of the offensive line was not so impressive, but Princeton's pass protection was as tight as any seen in the Harvard Stadium this season...