Word: fields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marseilles, they paused while their plane was being refuelled before starting for Paris. They flew, over the dreamy provinces of France, toward a last great city. There, in the late afternoon, a huge crowd was waiting for them. Their plane drifted to the field at Le Bourget, a weary metal bird, singing a slow song. The wheels rolled over the ground quickly, then slowly. The wheels stopped, the propeller stopped its slow spinning, and the two men got out of their airplane. Both of them were smiling. "Costes!'' yelled the people in the crowd. "Lebrix . . . Lebrix. . . ." Then they...
...Times Square, Manhattan, drivers of busses which nightly carry yokels to Chinatown changed their signs to read "Mitchel Field"; made money...
...Mitchel Field, 25,000 swarmed up to the landing field, bought out sandwich stands, played with the cat which was abandoned by Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
Besides these regular courses in Cambridge there is to be a special 12 weeks field course which will offer an opportunity to selected students to study the geology, physiography and archaeology of selected regions in France, Switzerland, Italy, and Spain during the summer. The course is conducted by Professor K.F. Mather in accordance with the terms of the gift of R.W. Sayles '01, which makes it possible...
...tradition and the unreasoning individual who sometimes values meaninglessness for its own sake may shed a silent tear over 30 and 32, no longer to be counted among the progeny of the History Department. But the true prophet of progress cannot but hail the advent of efficiency in a field where it has been sadly wanting...