Word: cage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because of unfavorable weather, the University football squad sought refuge in the baseball cage for yesterday's practice. Only a short drill was held, the session lasting less than two hours...
...development, and if every member of every Harvard team is to be a representative Harvard man. To make this possible, the effort should be made to get immediate action from the authorities upon such outstanding needs as a new gymnasium, a swimming pool, more squash courts, and a baseball cage. It goes without saying that any tendency to commercialize athletics means overemphasis and must be discouraged...
Said the Prwvda's returned Comrade Gulliver: "I saw (in New York City) 7,000,000 two-legged animals penned in an evil smelling cage . . . streets as unkempt as a Russian steppe . . . rubbish, waste paper, cigar butts, ends of lumber and general messiness. One glance and you know no master hand directs . . . Good Lord! anywhere in Moscow it is cleaner. I was choked by the fumes of gasoline . . . No wonder each room in the big hotels has a bath when the people must live in such an atmosphere!!! . . . New York, a stench...
...took the journalists (Cox and Oliver). The mob took iron chains. It chained the journalists by the neck. It took them into the streets of Canton and deposited them in a small bamboo cage. For 17 hours the mob hissed, booed, jeered, sneered, pelted, insulted the two animals in the cage...
Like a breastpin torn from a satin gown, the great control cabin was ripped from the body of the ship. One man, Lieut. Anderson, grabbed a girder in mid air, swung himself clear of the falling bridge. Thirteen men were left?13 men in a polished cage slipped through the air. Thirteen mangled bodies in mangled metal lay in a small farm at Ava, Ohio...