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...AUDEN: "Auden's is now the prescribed period style of the fifties, compounded of all the personal styles available ; but he no longer borrows whole lines, as for his first volumes, or even half-lines. It is a word here, a rhythm there, a rhetorical trope, a simile, an ingenious rhyme, a classical reference, a metrical arrangement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Graves & Scholars | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

...case, old smoothie Bill Dennis, a high scorer on the trope for the past two seasons, will play the here; cast as the villain is Harry Sacks, whose driving style picks up fouls and enabled him to set an Ivy League free threw record last year. Comic relief will come from Paul Shaw, who, when hot, boasts a deadly overhead set shot...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: 'Old Faces of 1953-4' | 12/5/1953 | See Source »

Ashely Gordon Trope...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The University Counts Its Dead of the Second World War | 4/9/1946 | See Source »

Pole Vault-Won by A. G. Trope ocC. (Eliot) 11 ft.: second-tie between S. L. Madey '40 (Eliot). A. B. Carlson '39 (Lowell), and E. R. Greenhood, Jr., '39 (Lowell) all at 10 ft., 8 in.: fifth-J. E. Jones, Jr. '38 (Kirkland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bellboys Gain Easy House Track Title | 5/24/1938 | See Source »

Javelin Throw-Won by A. G. Trope ocC (Eliot) 158 ft., 2 in.; second--P. M. Glendinning '39 (Lowell) 151 ft., 1 in.; third--W. D. Riddle '40 (Dunster) 150 ft., 5 1/2 in.; fourth--C. D. Ruch '38 (Adams) 145 ft., 8 in; fifth-M. L. Cohen '39 (Lowell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bellboys Gain Easy House Track Title | 5/24/1938 | See Source »

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