Word: field
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Voice did not answer, and on the Democratic side, foxy little Field Marshal Simmons began massing his troops behind the Borah irregulars to capture perhaps not only Flexible Tariff Ridge but some of the industrial salients-Chateau de Steel, Fort Cement, Brickopolis, Woolensville, perhaps even Manufacturing City...
Boston offers a lucrative field for the business of vice. Competition is keen. Thriving "places of business" crowd one another in Boston's South End. Philadelphia and New York rings vie with local operatives for the Boston trade. But last week the Boston vice industry suffered a slump. Federal agents descended on South End "houses." The hostesses, forewarned, had fled. Only two women were taken in: Rose ("Rosie Big Lips") Restant and Pauline ("Queen Polly") Levine...
...eighteenth year. The bequest provides for prizes of $300 and $200 respectively to go to the winners and runners-up of the series of arguments. Since but four clubs are eligible for the semi-finals, the first two years are occupied in selecting the best clubs of a large field by the process of elimination on the basis of point evaluation...
...capacity, should be conspicuous by their absence. . . . The heavies and the lightest players who are expectd to take part in Saturday's game will undoubtedly be in the Bates lineup. The Lewiston, Me., College will have Howe, a 218 pound tackle, and Bornstein, a 119 pound quarterback, on the field. --BY TIME...
There was a time when one could laugh at the smug hypocrisy of the Boston censors, but it becomes almost necessary to "view with alarm" a movement which threatens to wipe out the lawful study of a whole field of literature. In the welter of material which has appeared on the subject vilifying the censors, the one thing that has been overlooked is the possibility of disclosing an insidious publishers lobby. All books printed in a foreign language are admitted duty free into the country and they may sometimes compete with American publications and thus reduce the per'capita spendings...