Word: field
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sidar the Reckless. Mexico City bands blared out all the patriotic welcomes they knew. Mexico's burly little President Emilio Fortes Gil beamed on his grandstand in Valbuena Field. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow, at his left, smiled gravely. The populace screamed: "Viva . . . viva Sidar . . . viva Sidar el loco" [The crazy, reckless]. All this last week as Col. Pablo Sidar, 30, Mexico's "first" flyer since the death of Capt. Emilio Carranza (TIME, July 23, 1928), returned to Mexico City from a flight around South and Central America and Cuba. President Portes Gil pinned Mexico's first medal "For Aeronautic Merit...
...hero of the first story in this book. Dikran Kouyoumdjian is Author Michael Arlen's real name. But he warns us that all the characters in these stories are fictitious?he, too; his defense being that "historians have familiarized us with the truth that the past is a proper field for the imagination...
...University soccer team closed the preliminary work of its season by defeating Brown Saturday afternoon on the field behind the Business School, 4 to 0. The Providence team was unable to penetrate the Crimson defense, despite the strong efforts of Rasmussen and Taite, forwards...
...exclusion of many others that undoubtedly would be a broadening influence. The loss like a professional school the college remains, the more chance there is to avoid this rut and to exert a wholesome unrestricting influence on the students to whom they award degrees. No matter what professional field the college man may enter, the subjects studied outside of this field present a background upon which his specialized knowledge will have to work. Moreover, work not in a specified field offers a chance for contacts outside the particular professional pale which are daily becoming more difficult for the super-specializing...
...Harvard line withstood the onslaughts of the flashy Eli backfield better than was expected. Parker's broken field running and Crowley's scoring punches were the only Blue attacks which punctured the Crimson defense. The performance of the Harvard ends, W. C. Barton '33 and H. G. Reisner, Jr. '33, and that of I. B. Hardy, Jr. '33 and fullback chiefly marked the Harvard play...