Word: fields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...airports, too, grass is being scientifically studied. Messrs. Stump and Walter, turf technicians and theorists, having had long experience with golf courses and polo fields, now offer a formula giving the best combination of grass seeds to produce a proper landing field...
Maya Curse (Field Museum of Chicago). In southwest Mexico, 35 miles south by southeast of Valladolid and at the western border of Quintana Roo, the Mason-Blodgett expedition sent by the Field Museum of Chicago came upon a highway built by ancient Mayans 40 feet wide and raised ten feet from the ground...
...flying, but new instruments tested last week in Paris promise to make it easy. Henry Farman, air pioneer, and half a dozen French army pilots tested instruments that can be used in darkest night or fog, because they make sight unnecessary. Where the pilot has confidence that a clear field lies below, he can trust the new instruments to register exact distances from the ground...
...assuming his new office as Director of Widener Library Professor Robert Pierpont Blake will find opening before him a field of activity almost unlimited in extent, whose importance to the University cannot be exaggerated. The flexibility of the academic system has brought and will continue to bring far-reaching changes in the policies of instruction. To keep the Library in tune with the changing times will be the major portion of the task confronting the new Director...
With the announcement of a gift of $ 125,000 by Mrs. William Lowell Putnam for the promotion of scholarship through contests between various colleges an entirely new field of intercollegiate competition is opened up. No longer will the undergraduate desirous of contributing to the fame of his college or of winning renown for himself be forced to direct his energies to athletic achievement or to be content with the vague assurance that in devoting himself assiduously to his studies he is somehow adding to the intellectual prestige of his Alma Mater and storing up future treasures for himself...