Word: coliseums
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...Chicago, Paris, or of Rome, Hamburg and Glasgow put together. Its breath rising in a vast faint mist, its shout like the roar of an earthquake, its tiered ranks veiled with the smoke of innumerable cigarets, its tremendous stare as heavy as sunlight, this crowd in its fabulous coliseum has no equal in the world. Once the crowd was one-quarter its present size. It was composed of undergraduates, parents, alumni, their wives, sweethearts, cousins. For years it has been growing until it has come to include every element in the country. Last year 450 college teams played games...
Governor Arthur J. Weaver of Nebraska, Mason, Odd Fellow, Knight of Pythias, Woodman and Elk, and Mayor Richard Lee Metcalfe of Omaha, onetime editorial aide and good friend of the late arch-Protestant William Jennings Bryan, uttered the official welcome; Ak-Sar-Ben (Nebraska spelled backwards) coliseum provided a meeting place?when last week some 5,000 Roman Catholic archbishops, bishops, monsignori, priests and some 25,000 laymen assembled at Omaha for the first National Eucharistic Congress in 19 years. It was the greatest concourse of U. S. Catholics since the International Eucharistic Congress at Chicago four years...
...Lacey Kirk Williams, urbane pastor of Olivet, has been president of the Negroes' National Baptist convention for eight years. Last week he called the convention to order in Chicago. More than 50,000 delegates were in the city. They thronged through the streets. They filled the Coliseum. They conducted a "grand musicale" (1,000 choristers), street parades, an athletic carnival on Soldiers Field at the lake front, a "jubilee pageant of progress'' (2,000 participants). Quite visible were delegates in Chicago, yet not one of the important white Chicago daily papers reported their activities last week. Negroes...
...months, has established branches in many foreign countries (France, Germany, U. S.). Because owners have complained of the small size of televized images, Inventor Baird has, like Dr. Alexanderson of General Electric, spent the past year in enlarging his screen. Last fortnight, he gave a demonstration in the London Coliseum of his life-size images. English television programs are broadcast every...
Before a large coatless audience in the Hays Coliseum, Governor Reed opened the argument by bitterly flaying the Farm Board's crop reduction program. He declared western Kansas could raise nothing but wheat unless it returned to live stock, asked why crop limitation was not imposed east of the Mississippi River, criticized the Farm Board's "gospel of despair...