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...Yale crews, which reached Gale's Ferry a week ago, have been rowing on the Thames several days before the Crimson eights arrived. Before the week is out the two University boats, Eli and Harvard, may brush in practice, although no actual pre-arranged meeting between the shells will take place. For years in the past the rival eights have been meeting by chance as they rowed on the Thames, furnishing some interesting pre-race comparisons. Meetings of this sort, although they may furnish little advance information on the genuine regatta of late June, add interest to the long grind...
...often graduates wish they had kept their textbooks to brush up on a language, to find a certain formula, to locate that line of poetry...
...Will you permit me to brush my teeth before I accompany...
...number of museums and private collectors have contributed to the exhibition making it one of the most complete of its kind in the United States, and among the most important ever assembled in the University art museum. Some of the best paintings in the exhibition are from the brush of Sir Henry Raeburn. 1756-1823, his "Elfinstone Children" being possibly the outstanding canvas on display. Others, among them the portraits of Hugh Hope and Sir Walter Scott, display a warmth and depth of treatment that is unusually fine. Another portrait, that of Mrs Ellen Cochrane, from the brush...
...King?" Up flashed the answer: "At Wembley." The long cigar nuzzled over toward the stadium. Not since Zeppelins last bombed England 14 years ago has a German airship flown over London. For good measure the Graf skimmed Buckingham Palace at a height of barely 200 ft., seemed almost to brush the treetops...