Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...composing a "Re-Declaration of American Faith" to which, on Benjamin Franklin's birthday (January 17), the National Student Federation set out to obtain "several million'' signatures. First they signed up 63 Big Names, including such diverse characters as William Allen White, William Green, Marshall Field III, Al Smith. Central proposition of their manifesto is an inverted declaration of war: "Today our people are the objects of undeclared, but not unavowed, wars. . . . The challenge has not come from us. But since it has come, we accept...
Between Brooklyn, N. Y. and Honolulu, Hawaii, lie some 5.500 miles of land and sea. All that Ben Fleigelmann of Brooklyn thought he had to do to make that trip was join the U. S. Army Air Corps and get assigned to Luke Field, Hawaii. In a high moment last November, Mechanic Fleigelmann decided to fly back 2,400 miles to San Francisco in a Douglas B18 bomber, which can fly 2,000 miles with a full load and the usual crew of six experienced men. Inasmuch as Private Fleigelmann was not even one experienced flier, he was lucky...
...gone, its ammunition exhausted, the Loyalist Army disintegrated almost overnight into a disorganized rabble. As the Rebels pressed relentlessly on, a wild churning wave of soldiers and civilians, rushing for the border, rolled before them. Veterans of Belchite, Teruel, the Ebro campaigns carried their rifles, hauled machine guns and field pieces, even drove tanks up to the frontier, where they were confiscated. They were determined not to let General Franco capture any war weapons. At one point alone 4,000 were crossing the French border every hour. At another point a Loyalist Army band played patriotic Spanish airs while...
...Outing Club, however, transferred its activities to an "outdoor evening" on Hilton Field which was attended by more than a thousand people, with skating and skiing on the program...
...Field House bangs a complicated chart which looks like a series of baseball diamonds strung together. But it has nothing to do with baseball; rather it shows the scores of Harvard-Yale track meets for many years back--a fluctuating red line for the Crimson and a blue one for the Elis. And although for the last two years the lines have been nearly parallel, with the Blue on top, this year the Crimson indicator may well take a sharp turn upward if Jaakko Mikkola's track team fulfills the extraordinary promise it shows at this early date...