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Harvard's hockey team returned from a three-day sojourn at Lake Placid this vacation with a record of two defeats and one victory, as Princeton, last year's Quadrangular League Champions, took the so-called "social series" from the Crimson...
Moscow was again the capital of Russia this week. "Today," wrote New York Timesman. Cyrus Sulzberger in his first Moscow dispatch in two months, "the sun rose propitiously, shining on the placid white streets while the inordinately gay Muscovites, relieved of strain, bustled about doing their Sunday shopping, jesting at the latest posters ridiculing the retreating Germans...
...horn-rimmed spectacles. > Although both have the typical epicanthic fold of the upper eyelid (which makes them look almond-eyed), Japanese eyes are usually set closer together. > Those who know them best often rely on facial expression to tell them apart : the Chinese expression is likely to be more placid, kindly, open; the Japanese more positive, dogmatic, arrogant...
...bodies of naked women. Only three or four times has he sculpted a man; never an animal. When he did Leda and the Swan, he left the swan out and concentrated on Leda. His sculptures seldom tell a story, never illustrate any high-flown saw or slogan. But his placid, broad-hipped, female torsos, mountainously solid, yet so graceful that they seem about to move, have been the envy and despair of fellow sculptors all over the world...
Hissing for pianissimos like a music-loving gander, the goateed, salt-&-peppery conductor waved the orchestra into Delius' placid The Walk to the Paradise Garden. Suddenly Sir Thomas Beecham heard a sound that was not in the score...