Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week before the Yale meet next Saturday, an almost exclusively Freshman Jayvee swimming team whipped St. George's School 49 to 17. Highlight of the afternoon was Chuck Holzier's time of one minute, seven and two-tenths seconds in the 100 yard breast stroke, a Freshman record breaker for that event...
When the critics called Hogarth's engravings "crude," he replied, with 18th-Century involution, that the passions may be more forcibly expressed by a strong, bold stroke than by the most delicate engraving. To expressing them as I felt them, I have paid the utmost attention and, as they were addressed to hard hearts, have rather preferred leaving them hard, and giving the effect, by a quick touch, to rendering them languid and feeble by fine strokes and soft engraving, which require more care and practice than can often be attained, except by a man of a very quiet...
Manhattan's Metropolitan featured 70 drawings from the 15th to the 19th Century. Standouts were six casual masterpieces by the 15th-Century Florentines, who drew mostly in sepia and silverpoint (indelible). Trained to make each stroke right the first time, men like Michelangelo, Filippino Lippi and Verrochio looked long and hard before translating their models' flesh into thin lines. Their looser chalk studies, like Michelangelo's Libyan Sibyl, showed the same supreme accuracy...
Chuck Holzer took the 200-yard breast stroke for the Crimson in 2:44.8 minutes and the 300-yard medley relay team of Frank Krayer, Holzer, and Ted Burnham won with a good time of 3:15 minutes...
...always quick to see the lay of the land. As a student he specialized in worker-protection laws when such legislation was only a gleam in the revolutionary eye. When Cárdenas expropriated foreign oil holdings, Alemán organized state governors behind that popular stroke. Astute choice of Avila Camacho as presidential winner in 1940 and successful management of the campaign brought him the key cabinet post of Minister of the Interior and his present, apparently in-the-bag chance at the presidency...