Word: fields
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...home of cannibals, gibbons, serpents and birds of paradise. To get some of those birds, and on his way to photograph other jungle life, for the New York Zoological Park, Curator Lee S. Crandall left Manhattan last week. At Port Moresby, Papua, he will make up his field expedition of habitants and natives. Particular end of his quest is the "Rudolf," largest and most gorgeous bird of paradise. When it is not drifting between twilit trees, it hangs upside down, its feathers swaying about like the chiffon drapes of a young girl's party dress...
Dutch detectives lay on their bellies in advantageous spots within the Amsterdam stadium. They were equipped with field glasses with which they surveyed the crowd. In this manner they were able to spot and seize some 2,000 cameras, thereby protecting the Olympic photographic monopoly which had been sold to one firm...
...continued to win the field events and lose the track events, with few exceptions. "Our boys are overtrained; the Amsterdam track is slow," said U. S. coaches. The London Evening Standard seized upon this situation, an opportunity to run a story attributing the sad plight of U. S. runners to the eating of too much ice cream...
First Places in the men's track and field events were captured by the U. S. 8; Finland, 5; Canada, 2; Great Britain, 2, France, Ireland, Japan, South Africa, Sweden...
Charles Lanier Lawrance, famed designer of the Wright Whirlwind motor (TIME, Feb. 13) was piloting an Avro-Avian above and about Curtiss Field. With him rode J. B. Taylor, vice president of Air Associates, Inc., owners of the plane. Violent air currents bowed the ship's head. It shivered, dived. As it came to earth it straightened out automatically, damaging only the landing gear. Experts attributed this salvation of the flyers to the slot...