Word: unfamiliar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three factors conspired to beat the English horse. A) His voyage and race under totally unfamiliar conditions. B) The smooth plates and the felt spats he wore which deadened his action in the muddy going...
...lacerated and a slavish father's pocketbook insultingly proffered when their son's wild oat comes to light. The heroine, backed by an open-space brother of the slavish father, carries the day for righteousness with a fine mixture of scorn, patience, idealism. Few of the multitudinous lines are unfamiliar, yet Author Jules Goodman insists on driving the lot home with dogged repetition. Helen Gahagan is courageous under her heavy load. Katherine Alexander, as a young sister of the oat-sower, furnishes a few waking moments by some realistic flapping...
...Yale eight, trained by Ed Leader, from the Pacific Coast, defeated Cornell and Princeton. Leader's crew, rowing a stroke unfamiliar to Yale eights since the days of the late Bob Cook, thrashed along at 33 for virtually the entire race, wearing down first Princeton and then Cornell to win by open water. The slow stroke and the magnificent reserve apparent in the crew are considered excellent omens for Leader's ultimate success against Harvard at New London. Meanwhile the only boat in the East that can challenge the Blue's superiority is the Navy eight. Yale...
...method. Another method, almost as important, is that of trial-and-error--the curriculum of the School of Experience; this is fostered by the Dramatic Club and the Musical Club of the University. The aim of each is not to present old and well-known compositions, but new or unfamiliar works intermixed with products of home talent...
...program offered tonight by the Musical Club has aroused the interest of Boston and New York musical critics to discourses of flattering length, because of the proposed performance of works by two foreign composers--works which have never before been performed in this country. Aside from this introduction of unfamiliar compositions, the club will also present five pieces written by Mr. Ballantine of the Music Department. The program is therefore thoroughly representative of the club's aim and deserves wide heralding...