Word: field
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four years ago when A. A. Milne's When We Were Very Young was new and Theodore Roosevelt Jr., having failed to become Governor of New York, had set off for the wild Pamir region of Asia to hunt Marco Polo's lost sheep (Ovis poli) for Chicago's Field Museum. Last week Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was again playing, in an Indo-Chinese place where the wild beasts race, when he succeeded at last in becoming a Governor ?of Porto Rico?by appointment of President Hoover...
Attorney for Fogarty, Col. Lewis M. Field of the staff of Gov. Trumbull of Connecticut, stated that his client had no knowledge of the contents of the quitclaim when she signed it; that if she did sign it, there had been duress ("pressure...
Catapulting, previously experimented with, was tried out for the first time last week as an aid to a duration flight. The catapult roughly resembles a cannon on wheels. It can be trundled over a flying field wherever desired. Within the trough of the barrel a can of gasoline, oil or food is placed. The container rests against a powerful spring and has attached to it a rope. The rope hangs over two vertical, widely spaced arms fixed to the catapult chassis. In the mechanics of catapulting, a plane comes sweeping toward the machine about 20 feet from the ground. From...
Holy Cross, long the arch-rival of Crimson nines, will do battle with the University baseball team on Fitton Field, Worcester, this afternoon, in what promises to be one of the season's hardest encounters. Last year Coach Barry's charges captured both contests of, the two-game series, and should make a strong bid to make it three straight today...
Coach Mitchell will send Howard Whitmore '29, the dean of Harvard pitchers, to face the Crusader sluggers. Whitmore has never before pitched a Holy Cross game, but it seems probable that he will get the mound call again next Saturday, when the Crusaders come to Soldiers Field for the second and last clash of the series...