Word: afield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month the filmsters went back to Much Wenlock to shoot Gone to Earth's climactic scenes. They found a new and unexpected chill in the Shropshire air: there was not a Master of Foxhounds in sight who would lend a pack of hounds to them. They tried farther afield, but the Sports Society had done its work well. "We gave no orders to any M.F.H.," explained its Assistant Secretary Michael Shephard. "We simply advised them that in the opinion of the B.F.S.S. it was inadvisable to cooperate in the making of this film." Dejected, the moviemakers returned to London...
Although the African artists stuck close to home for their subject matter, they had traveled far afield for their techniques. Like many a contemporary European and American painter, most of them had obviously been influenced by the Impressionists, by the simplified landscapes of Gauguin, and by such far-off painters as Winslow Homer. Among the more outstanding exhibitors were amateur Archeologist-Teacher Walter Battiss, whose paintings of grazing animals and intrepid hunters were deliberately patterned on prehistoric Bushman drawings, and ex-Medical Corpsman Alexis Preller, who combined something of the lurid colors and slick forms of the Mexican muralists with...
...daily column, Cope mixes his propaganda for the agrarian revolution with homely philosophy, simple humor, useful information and unabashed corn. Though most of his columns plow a straight furrow through common farm problems, he also roams as far afield as barbershop quartets and alcoholism. Cope's most celebrated column had nothing to do with farming. It was a sentimental epitaph for his dead Scottie, Mr. Burns...
...place in what is by rights a literary magazine. It is of topical interest, fitting in with what seems to be the Advocate trend started with "The Jew at Harvard" and continued last month by "The Club System: Pro and Con," but one wonders where this going afield on the part of the Advocate editors will lead...
...Rakowski (he batted in four Lion runs), got pitcher Bob Swanson four more tallies in the second. After that, the Crimson infield offered Godin some decent support and Godin aided his own cause by striking out 13 batters, driving in Harvard's first three runs, and doing yeoman work afield...