Word: superbness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charley Paddock, American sprinter: " Arriving in Paris for the international university fetes on May 6, I was met by a large delegation. After expressing my affection for France, I said: 'My form is superb . . I am going to pulverize all my records...
...else. Last Sunday afternoon they presented Schubert's Mass in E Flat, the most charming of ecclesiastical music, an excellent example of old Schubert's ingratiating sweetness. Which recalls that a good deal of the world's very loveliest composition is to be found in that superb art form, the Mass...
...Hearn was the most spectacular performer on the visiting sextet with superb defense work and frequent individual dashes to the Crimson's end of the rink. Bulkeley and Reid, on the forward line did, most of the shooting, but for nearly two periods the Crimson defense was able to restrict them to fruitless attempt from center...
This Jeritza is a miracle of that vague quality we call personality. No one of those present at the time will forget his first sight of her in Die Tote Stadt a year ago. The wizardly clever but banal music had woven a climax for a superb entrance. A door swung open, and on the upper landing of a low stairway a flame of orange appeared, a Juno-like figure radiant in smiles and a blond glamor. That was Jeritza...
...exciting game at the Arena last night. Both teams scored in the initial period and from then until Crosby scored the winning goal late in the third period, neither team had any advantage. The Canadians had an excellent defense which stopped the University forwards again and again by superb work, but inaccurate passing robbed them of more than one scoring opportunity...