Word: field
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Freshman soccer players scored one goal in the third period yesterday and shut out Medford High, 1 to 0, in a game on the Business School Field...
...Marxian formula is simple, scriptless, and enormously successful. Each couple of contestants (three for each half-hour show) is given $20 and a chance to bet on their answers to questions in a given field. Quizmaster Groucho perches on a stool by the microphone, and chats with them between questions. He encourages them to tell their life stories, and as they talk, he festoons the impromptu dialogue with strings of rapid-fire gags, or simply guides his victims into verbal traps and lets them writhe. "Women are the best ones on this program," says Marx, carefully flicking cigar ashes...
Working in a similar field was a 68-year-old Swiss physiologist, Dr. Walter Rudolph Hess, director of Zurich University's Physiological Institute. A specialist in the circulatory and nervous systems, Dr. Hess studied the reaction of animals to electric shocks. By applying electrodes to parts of a cat's brain he was able to make the animal do what it would normally do if it saw a dog, i.e., hiss, etc. By experiments, Dr. Hess was able to determine how parts of the brain control organs of the body...
Across such a battleground run waves of defeat and triumph. Whole populations of thriving creatures suddenly disappear and are replaced by new ones. Small, humble organisms, which have been living a hunted existence, turn belligerent and dominate the field...
...came along after Ibsen and who has since been praised by such dramatists as Shaw, O'Neill, and Thornton Wilder, who regard him as one of their teachers. Indeed, the position of Strindberg seems to have been set at half-way between Ibsen and O'Neill in the field of modern, naturalistic drama; and since the former spells death at the box-office and the latter is a commercial risk, Strindberg, by association, has been deprived of his place on the professional stage, (except in rare revivals of "Miss Julie," a one-act play...