Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meet will be featured by six separate events including fancy diving, 50-yard free style, 200-yard free style, 100-yard back stroke, 100-yard relay, and a beginners race. The beginners race is open only to students who have learned to swim this year...
Brisk workouts during the past few days have greatly improved the style and teamwork of the CRIMSON nine, and several members of the team have become quite astonished at their own proficiency. The daily reports from the Princetonian camp indicate that the Nassau newspapermen are rounding into shape fast, under the constant admonition of the unknown coach, "New Jersey expects every man to do his duty...
...also on show. The work of Brancusi is so eccentric that it has caused a furore among artistic circles wherever it has been shown. His work is so unusual, in fact, that the stolid customs officials of New York City, untrained in the finer points of the new style, refused to admit several of his statues exempt from customs as works of art. Art was art, they maintained, but not these monuments...
...located at the corner of Mount Auburn and Holyoke Streets have been approved and work will start immediately. The building which has been designed by the firm of Adden and Parker will be four stories high of red brick and will be architecturally in harmony with the colonial style now so prevalent throughout the University. Originally to be only three stories high, it was found that more room was necessary and the fourth floor which has been added to the plans will be given over entirely to dormitory rooms for students in the school...
...pages are broken with epigrams: "Good servants are trustworthy and it is doubtful whether there is a great man in history who would not, as a valet, have pilfered from his master." The style is quicker on its feet, less mannered, than before. Occasionally, as indicated, Author Arlen squares off too noticeably for a purple passage, a witty remark...