Word: springfields
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...idealist line as clear in early republican painting? Not quite, for artists took longer to develop their gifts, and painting, in any case, never seemed as good a political instrument to the Founding Fathers as architecture. Benjamin West (1738-1820), born in Springfield, Pa., to Quaker parents, was the first major American painter to make a career in Europe; he succeeded Sir Joshua Reynolds as the second president of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. West might be known as the American Raphael, but this praise was as excessive as Lord Byron's dismissal of him: "the flattering, feeble...
...Bishop Milton Wright lived in a circumscribed world of nuts and bolts. They took care of business, and by trial and error they slowly realized their dream of flight on the sands of the Outer Banks and over Huffman Prairie, a half-mile-long field on the Dayton-Springfield trolley line...
...Assemblies of God, a Pentecostal denomination with 2.3 million U.S. followers, reached the decision on the two clergymen during two days of discussions in Fayetteville, N.C. Their findings were endorsed in a telephone conference by the national denomination's 13-member Executive Presbytery and announced at Assemblies headquarters in Springfield...
...rapid-fire Harvard offense continually pelted the Springfield net, outshooting the Maroons in the game by a margin of 45-18. But defense was also a key, as the Crimson shut out the Maroons in two of the first three periods...
Harvard (6-1 overall, 1-1 Ivy League) was never seriously challenged by Springfield, as it moved out to a 3-0 lead after the first quarter. The Crimson owned a 7-2 advantage at the half--a lead that grew to 10-2 at the start of the final period...