Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Emperor to Monk. The Crawford collection ranges from pages out of ancient albums to calligraphic couplets, from spectacular wall scrolls to hand scrolls that were meant to be seen only a few inches at a time. There are scenes of jolly drunkenness and of men contemplating a waterfall, paintings ranging from lofty landscapes to spare sprays of bamboo, the nearest thing in nature to calligraphy. One 22-ft. hand scroll showing a series of great palaces is a work of art so intricate that it seems like a series of fantasies by some Oriental Piranesi. Yet recent excavations...
...second biggest stockholder (the biggest: Ohio's Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co.. with around 10%), and he is still buying. Simon, who has built Hunt Foods into a leading West Coast food processor, claims to be interested in Wheeling only as a personal investment, but some Wall Streeters believe he is actually moving to expand Hunt into a nationwide giant. Once he has a hammerlock on Wheeling's tinplate production, they speculate, he may then try to take over an Eastern food processor-perhaps Stokely Van-Camp-for products to fill Wheeling's cans...
...line, which was supposed to cause all the problems, however, has shown considerable and surprising development. Against Holy Cross, a team that out-weighed Harvard on the forward wall by more than 20 pounds per man, the Crimson line did a fine job of trapping and double-teaming. Had there been fewer defensive mistakes in the secondary and more brilliant backfield play, victory would have been possible...
...continued with his pass action style of football, and only three plays later the ball was laid on the Harvard 18. Switching to orthodox, short run plays, McCarthy then had his fellow backs assault the interior line until he had achieved the one yard line. Harvard's forward wall found it impossible to resist the superior weight that was thrown against them...
Three times Cornell had first downs inside the Harvard five, and three times the Crimson wall went up on the goal line. The Big Red tried to plow through the middle, but each time the young varsity line held fast. Twice the Ithacans had to give up right on the goal line, and the third time Cornell was thrown back to the five for a four-yard loss...