Word: cinder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, which will be laid out on the green within the cinder track, will contain five hurdle obstacles And one 12-foot water gap. The Olympic contestants on Saturday will make the circuit 13 times, in rounding out the 1500-metre distance, which is slightly less than one mile...
...soon as the reserved seats in the Stadium sections are exhausted, tickets to the reserved seats in the colonnade and in the wooden, stands on the cinder track will be offered to the public. On Saturday the final black of tickets will be put on sale, when 12,000 rush seats in the wooden stands at the end of the Stadium are offer diet the gates of Soldiers Field at 81.00 each...
...life of the professional baseball player is sketched, at least, in Heywood Broun's The Sun Field; the professional pugilist appears in Jim Tully's Emmett Lawlor; steel and iron workers, both masters and men, pass through the pages of Caret Garrett's The Cinder Buggy. But in spite of these and the vast number of semi-humorous or mechanically conventional "sport stories" or "labor stories" in our popular magazines?a good deal of modern American fiction seems to deal with a class of characters who form a very small minority of the population...
...CINDER BUGGY?Garet Garrett?Dutton ($2.00). Wrought iron made New Damascus great, in its moment?wrought iron and two men, Aaron Breakspeare and Enoch Gib. Aaron, the popular, engaging, lovable idealist; Enoch the dour and practical, well-hated, well-feared. The men clashed over two things? a woman and steel. Popular Aaron won the woman but his dream of a steel age failed?it was still too early. Enoch clung to iron?and when Aaron's son, John Breakspeare, brought his father back to New Damascus, dead, the clash between practical Enoch and young Breakspeare, between iron and steel...
Four thousand additional seats have been constructed on the straight stretches of the cinder track within the Stadium. Including the 3,000 seats already constructed on the curve of the track, the total seating capacity of the Stadium for the Dartmouth game will be over...