Word: bracket
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stern old grandmother who indulges a reprobate son. But, often as not, her dramatic moments flare into melodramatic anticlimax: Missie, weary of a wasted life, staggers to her old home, turns on the gas stopcock, falls asleep. "As the sun rose it turned into burnished copper the tarnished gas bracket, through which no gas had flowed for many years, and beat pitilessly on her throat; that throat on which her life was etched with fine lines, and in which now the pulse was still throbbing, throbbing with the terrible vitality of women...
Despite its atrocious style, its incongruity in a bracket of sheer apartment houses, those familiar with the castle's tradition regard it affectionately, reverently. For here live the Potter Palmers...
Harvard and West Point stand at the extremities of the bracket of education. But though these be as other East and West, parodox rules today, not Kipling. And implicit within them is that American homogeneity that makes this rendezvous appeal to the pulses of each. The permanence of the effect of Harvard on West Point and West Point on Harvard is no key to the value of this meeting. No such heightening is needed for the healthy contrasting colors that make this a welcome Saturday at Harvard...
...played in the near future will be between G. H. Perkins 3S.A. who last year won the fall tennis tournament by defeating R. H. Whitbeck '29 in straight sets, and Frank Donovan, a graduate of Notre Dame and now a student in the Graduate Schools. The winner of this bracket will enter the semi-finals in the upper half...
This tournament starts Wednesday, March 28, when four games will be played in New York. Yale will meet a Yonkers trio, while Harvard will meet a Chicago team. The winners of these two rounds will meet in the semi-final bracket on March...