Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This week, the University swordsmen will see action against Boston University and Yale. Much will depend on the outcome of these two matches...
...press last week were released photographs of the portrait of President Coolidge painted by Frank O. Salisbury during the President's holiday at Sapeloe Island. Friends thought it was good, except that Calvin Coolidge never held his head as imperiously as that (see col. 2), and it makes him a lot younger, firmer-fleshed, cleaner cut, than he really looks. That, however, may be what a good portrait should do. Furthermore, as the late John Singer Sargent once said: "A portrait is a picture in which something-is-wrong-with-the-eyes...
...Impatient with its seductions, Herbert Hoover last week boarded his train at Miami, sped back to Washington against the advice of several good friends. Inauguration was still a fortnight off. All precedent opposed such an early return. But Mr. Hoover had lots to do, many people to see. Besides, his home is in Washington...
...customary rather grimy self that yesterday he sallied forth. To spare the more gruesome details, the morning's jaunt on snowshoes managed to give him a very intimate acquaintance with the snow by tripping him up every time one of the attractions of nature he had come to see drew his attention away from a fixed spot about two feet in front of him. Skating was out of the question because the pond was buried so deep in snow his hosts did not even know where to start looking for it, and the afternoon spent on skis made the Vagabond...
...basketball game that see sawed back and forth from beginning to end Worcester Academy emerged in the lead when the final whistle blew defeating the Crimson Freshmen...