Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Innsbruck, in old Austria, General Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the high command of the German Army, and Undersecretary for War General Alberto Pari-ani, Italy's chief of Army staff, conferred on "common military problems." Field Marshal Hermann Goring was in Italian Libya as the guest of Governor Air Marshal Italo Balbo. German Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, after a brief and none-too-cordial reception in Egypt, arrived at the Italian island of Rhodes, in the Eastern Mediterranean, where 45,000 Italian troops were reported as having landed. On the neighboring Dodecanese Islands, strongly fortified Ital...
Baseball to Tumors. Dr. Cushing's extraordinary career is a record of one of the most single-minded men in the history of medicine. At Yale young Harvey Cushing played right field on the baseball team, and became a first-rate gymnast. Following family tradition (three generations), he decided to become a doctor, went through Harvard Medical School. Afterwards he went to Johns Hopkins Hospital and studied abroad. In Switzerland he was inspired by great Surgeon Theodor Kocher to enter the field of neurology. His inspiration burned with icy clarity...
Played under practically the same rules, indoor polo differs from outdoor polo in five major respects: three players instead of four; four chukkers instead of eight; smaller field; playing surface of clay, sand and shavings; leather-covered rubber ball instead of a wooden ball...
...heavily loaded craft to 12,000 ft. and headed east. Averaging 30 miles to the gallon, he kept his Monocoupe on top of an overcast most of the way, kept himself on the course by listening to range stations on a small radio receiver. When he landed at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. next day, tired and chilled, he had set a new transcontinental light-plane record: 23 hours and 26 minutes, an average of 110 m.p.h. Cost of the trip, exclusive of sandwiches, coffee and depreciation: $27.15. Result: a fat sheaf of inquiries from pilots, to some of whom Monocoupe...
...first place results of the field events of the University Track Handicap held yesterday afternoon are as follows...