Word: web
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Over the field we soared, and due east for B-Twelve, sixteen, nineteen, twenty-two, twenty-four hundred metres--mounting well at 1,180 turns. The earth seemed hidden under a fine web like the Lady of Shallot wove; soft purple in the west changing to shimmering white in the east. Under me on the left the Vosges, like rounded sand dunes cushioned up with velvety light and dark mosses (really forests). But to the south, standing firmly above the purple cloth like icebergs shone the Alps. My! they looked steep and jagged. The sharp blue shadows on their western...
...first crew tomorrow. K. B. G. Parson '16 dropped in on the University camp today and gave every intention of making an extensive visit. The weather is so decidedly bad that all oarsmen have been provided with rubber boots, and in case the mud and water increase, web feet may be developed or applied...
...apology for the ancient and mythical man of straw, who is supposed to reign in Harvard square, with zones of influence extending far up Brattle street and as far down as the dens of Boylston Hall,--the demon of irreligion. But what Mr. Wright gives us is a colorful web of reminiscence and meditation. He pleads for a creed of spiritual temperance, of purity and discipline, for the sake of the aesthetic satisfaction to be derived from such a view. This he calls the pagan morality, and such it is if Francis Thompson is the authentic model of Catholicism...
...awarded to George Francis Abbott 1G., of Rochester, N. Y., for a comedy entitled, "The Man in the Manhole"; the second prize of $50 to Stephen Finis Austin 2G., of San Antonio, Tex., for a comedy entitled, "The Winning of General Jane"; special mention has been made of "The Web," by Alice Brown, of Boston, it being considered of unusual merit. The fact that it was not a comedy barred it from receiving a prize...