Word: springfields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...submitted a painting for a show of the Springfield Art League, resigned when it was accepted, giving as his reason that he had deliberately painted the worst picture he could...
...annual exhibition of the Art League of Springfield, Mass., a local, conservative painter named Henry J. P. Billings* sent a strangely affecting picture, Opus No. 1. It was accepted. Artist Billings promptly got some publicity by resigning from the League. His explanation: Opus No. 1 was the result of a deliberate attempt to paint the worst picture, in drawing, design, color and technique, that his ingenuity could devise. "Juries," said Joker Billings, "should be selected who have background enough to distinguish good from bad in modern...
White, of Bowdoin, holder of the New England league records in the 50 and 100, will also compete. He can negotiate the two-lap race in 23.4, and the century in 53.4. Men from Rutgers, Cornell, Wesleyan, Brown and Springfield will be in the running as well...
...others, in Philadelphia: Blakiston, Davis, Lea & Febiger, Lippincott; in Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins: in Manhattan, Hoeber, Appleton-Century; in St. Louis, Mosby; in Springfield, Ill., Thomas. †Diagnostician William Osler, Surgeon William Stewart Halsted, Pathologist William Henry Welch, Gynecologist Howard Atwood Kelly...
...pound division is held down by Louis Ach, a Junior, who won against Springfield and Penn but lost other matches. His place was taken early in the year by Sophomore Lou Daily, raw and inexperienced but determined. Ach has progressed rapidly during the last year and may gain honors as a Senior...