Word: cage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blessed with a brace of talented twirlers that would make the moneybags under Tom Yawkey's eyes turn green with envy, Coach Floyd Stahl guided the nucleus of his 1941 baseball team into its second week of practice in Briggs Cage yesterday afternoon...
...Heavyweight Lou Nova ran a foot race, impeded by a hastily donned corset. The most implausible feature of the entertainment came when, as another Consequence, bland, dinner-jacketed Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd (in front of 1,500 invitees) was prevailed upon to thrust his head into a golden canary cage and allow himself to be fed crackers while he quavered "I'm Only A Bird In A Gilded Cage...
...former Notre Dame football and basketball star, is 25 years old. He gained All-America honors with the Fighting Irish in 1938 and played at end in the 1939 All-Star Professional game in Chicago. He was a three-year letterman in both basketball and football, captaining the cage squad...
Minutes later, the 77th Congress rose from its predecessor's ashes. The phoenix nest where this political rebirth occurred looked not unlike a bird cage, thanks to a network of steel girders, erected temporarily to hold up the aged and rickety Congressional roof...
...Harvard," the article states, "other men wanted to check on the belief that flu is spread by sneezing. So they built a sneezing machine--a small, glass-enclosed cage with an atomizing nozzle stuck in one side. Ferrets in the cage got flu after a couple of blasts of the atomizer. Further work with high-speed cameras and other equipment indicated that droplets are expelled from the mouth of a sneezer at the rate of 100 miles per hour; and that flu microbes in the droplets float in the air, well and happy, for as long as half an hour...