Word: superbness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three yard line on a succession of devasting smashes and sweeps. From this position the former, plunged over for what looked to be a score. But a fifteen yard penalty apparently saved the Dartmouth cause, and it was only when a lateral pass from French to Guarnaccia aided by superb interference by A. W. Huguley '31 put the pigskin. CRIMSON RUSHES OFFSET DARTMOUTH AERIAL GAME H D First downs. rushing 16 5 First downs. passing 0 6 Ball lost on downs 1 1 Passes attempted 3 23 Passes completed 0 11 Own passes intercepted 1 4 Yardage gained on passes...
...citizens of France were reminded that the State presents a superb set of Sevres china to every foreign Legation and Embassy in Paris. Furthermore, when a piece from one of these "diplomatic sets" breaks, the fragments are exchangeable without charge for a new and costly Sevres platter, plate, vase...
...five feet on the green; not so in polo. Yet, there have been great women players. Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock, who must now be nearly 65, taught Winston Guest, as well as her own sons, the game; it would be difficult to say on how many summer mornings this superb lady has been seen on her field in Westbury, telling a crowd of youngsters what was wrong with their play. That field has been the nursery and Mrs. Hitchcock the nurse of International Polo...
...culmination of his career. Long before the World War, he worked with the late Count Zeppelin in converting the clumsy blimp into the streamlined airship. The change was essentially the perfection of a light and rigid duraluminum framework within the gas bag (envelope). The result was a superb instrument of war-with long cruising radius and many-bomb capacity. Terms of peace made it necessary for Dr. Eckener to bring Zeppelin ZR3 to the U. S., where she was promptly rechristened Los Angeles. After that, he built the Count Zeppelin for commercial purposes...
...supreme achievement of "Annie Laurie'' is a biography of Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst (mother of W. R. H.), printed on parchment in California, illustrated with superb steel engravings, limited to 1,000 numbered copies, and now being bound at Leipzig, Germany, with gold edges all 'round, velvet linings, and hand tooled pigskin covers. Reputed cost...