Word: robin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What a Picasso abstraction is to a billboard, figure skating is to what most people do when they exercise on ice. Half sport, half art, it requires a course of training feasible only because figure skaters begin their vocation soon after leaving the cradle. When Robin Huntingdon Lee became U. S. champion at the age of 15, in 1935, he was no prodigy but a veteran of eight years' arduous training. Last week Robin Lee, Maribel Vinson, Erie Reiter and the rest of the small company of U. S. figure skating virtuosos were at Chicago to whirl, spin...
...green circles, pink and lavender blobs by such non-objectivists as Vasily Kandinsky, Rudolf Bauer, Ladislaus Moholy-Nagy. As his collection grew he filled the bedroom of his handsome old colonial house in Charleston, S.C. with them, then redecorated his entire apartment in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel in robin's-egg blue, cork walls and homespun tapestries to hang the rest. Over his marble fireplace hangs old Mr. Guggenheim's favorite of the moment, one of a series of four arrangements of circles and lines by Rudolf Bauer entitled Tetraptychon (see p. 36), but he is also...
...Levis, captain of the United States Olympic Team, Mr. Peroy continued, "Our hardest match comes up on March 6 in the Pentagonal Meet with Army, Navy, Yale, and Princeton. Our toughest competition will be with Yale, but we undoubtedly have a chance." The Pentagonal Meet will be a round-robin where every man encounters every other man. Each man is only allowed one weapon. The matches will go on all day, and probably well into the night...
...university to retain Dr. Frank's services as president." Peculiar was the position of Acting President Sellery, an arch-conservative educator called affectionately by some, contemptuously by others, "The Old Tory." In 1917 he and most of the rest of Wisconsin's faculty signed a round robin denouncing old Father "Fighting Bob" La Follette for his pacifism. La Follette adherents never forgave him, hinted that Glenn Frank should fire him as soon as he became president...
...Some doubt was expressed, however, that the establishment of a formal league would attain all of the desired ends. Further difficulties arose in contemplating the limitations of a round robin schedule. The net result was a conviction that while a football league has such promising possibilities that it may not be dismissed and must be the subject of further consideration, the time has not yet come when the seven suggested members feel ready to establish a definite and formal organization...