Word: field
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard second baseball team was nosed out by the Yale substitutes in the ninth inning of Saturday's encounter on Soldiers Field, the score being 3 to 2. It was the last game of the year for both nines...
Yale scored first when Rathborne, Eli back, drove in a goal through a tangle of players before the goal. T. E. Gerry '31 soon evened the count after a spectacular dash down the field, but before the end of the period Yale had added two more scores...
...crowd was happy. It was a Sunday ball game. Suddenly, without warning, clouds appeared, thunder clapped, rain poured down. Straw hats, spring clothes were in danger. The bleacherites arose en masse and rushed for the wire-lined exits. The exits were small, the rushers many. In the right-field bleacher section, called "Ruthville" because George Herman ("Babe") Ruth knocks most of his homeruns there, a young girl and an old man were trampled to death, 62 others injured...
...Stinson-Detroiter monoplane glided down upon Langley Field, at Hampton, Va., one day last week and the two men who stooped out of her cabin asked army mechanics to help them trundle the plane at once into a hangar...
That done, they hauled tarpaulin, chain and padlocks from their cabin and securely shrouded their motor from prying eyes. They had reached Langley Field in 6 hrs. 50 min. flying time and they took precautions because, underneath the chain-wrapped tarpaulin, was the first diesel-type motor ever used successfully for airplane propulsion. The flyers were Mechanical-engineers Lionel M. Woolson and Walter Edwin Lees. Their employer, developer of something new and great in the air, was Packard Motor...