Word: superbness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lovejoy of Yale and Kubale of Princeton were the possibilities at center. The former won the position by his superb defensive playing which offset the additional experience exhibited by Kubale...
Upsetting all predictions by stopping the powerful Blue running attack with a superb defence at the crucial moments and aided by the sensationally brilliant 57-yard run by Owen and the flawless generalship of Captain Buell, the University eleven won, for the third consecutive year, a 10 to 3 victory in the Bowl Saturday over a Yale team vastly superior in weight and physical prowess but lacking in coordination and strategy...
...words of sympathy; the Voice of the Whirlwind makes known its will, and the Epilogue relates of Job's reward. That is all; no action, only dialogue in long and little divided recitation. Yet it is so built for contrast and emphasis, so perfectly tuned, set in such a superb harmony of color, light, and gesture, that it carries the audience in inspired suspense through on unbroken hour and a half...
...brilliant headwork in the last quarter of the game with the westerners. In fact his playing is typical of this year's Princeton team as a whole which has frequently given an exhibition of only mediocre football but which on the other hand has and may today show a superb brand of football rarely surpassed by a Tiger eleven...
...such economy of means, with never a descent to mere noise, with real beauty, Saint-Saens skips from hen's cackle to donkey's bray, from pianists; technical studies to carping critics' chatter; a masterful piece cl work, and eloquently played. From double-bass to flute the orchestra was superb, Mr. Bedetti, as usual, standing out as a supreme artist. May we not hear their fine sketches again this year...