Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rivera is, at his best, a pocket-size Homer, at his worst a billboard-calendarist wooing the tourist trade. And for all the movement and technical preciseness and colour, Diego Rivera has never been, certainly is not, Mexico's or the Hemisphere's greatest living artist...
Gumdrop Remembrance. Actually, frightful was the word for most of it, and the worst pieces were generally the ones that relied on ideas instead of shapes. (Low point: a head of Christ with a crown of bona fide barbed-wire thorns and chandelier pendants for tears.) But the abstractions seemed little better: Theodore Roszac's spiny steel Recollection of the Southwest looked no more handsome than a broken bedspring, and Leo Amino's colored plastic Remembrance of Things Past might have been mistaken for a highly original gumdrop display. Such eccentric exhibits made the few conservative examples...
Sailing under the worst possible conditions yesterday the varsity yachts men placed second with 68 points in the New England intercollegiate dinghy eliminations. Brown was the winner in the Charles River race with a total of 69 points...
Boston College may play a good game of football and hockey, but it's another story where tennis is concerned. Yesterday afternoon the Crimson shut out the Eagles, 9 to 0, in one of the worst drubbings in the last few years...
...Russell singled to left. Pete Reiser sacrificed him to second. One out. Tommy Holmes grounded out, Russell moving to third on the play. Two out. Then Phil Masi was given an intentional walk--good strategy, inasmuch as the next man up was, by his own admission, the worst batter in the National League...