Word: field
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...official, was suffering from the ill effects of his accident during the War when he was thrown from his horse, and nothing would do but that His Majesty must be treated with a certain type of embrocation, generally used for bruised limbs after a hard day in the hunting field, and which is incidentally nationally advertised...
...aggravated his deed by adding every insult and presumption to injury. Radio flashes from Kabul first told that the Third-King-of- the-Week had restored order, then envisioned the British Minister to Afghanistan, Sir Francis Humphrys, as standing on the roof of his legation, peering about through powerful field glasses, espying only cowed citizens and their ferociously armed conquerors. Some of the bandits were described as "swathed in cartridge belts up to the eyes," and "jingling with as many as three rifles, six pistols, and two swords." The new Water Carrier-Emperor was said to have ridden into Kabul...
Into the chain store field last week went Innovation Trunk Co. of Manhattan, makers of wardrobe trunks. Following recent new financing, the trunk company has announced its intention of marketing its product, both wholesale and retail, through a chain of stores soon to be established in various large U. S. cities...
Both the University and Freshman polo teams will see action this evening in the fourth round of the Commonwealth Polo Club Tournament to be played in the Commonwealth armory at 8.15 o'clock. The University trio will meet the 101st Field Artillery in the Senior division game, while the 1932 team will play the Cavalry Cossacks...
...will be said that such a scheme would lead to specialization and narrowness. To a certain extent this objection is valid, though a wide variety of types, both social and intellectual, are certainly represented among the students who are following any broad field of knowledge. But it is difficult to see how active intellectual curiosity can be aroused among undergraduates, naturally tending toward diffusion of effort, without some specification, and consequently narrowing, of interest. Alan R. Sweezy...