Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese who, caught in Pingchüan when the Japanese entered the city, donned the blood-stained uniforms of dead Japanese, walked out of the city unmolested. This trick sometimes boomerangs. Recently 8th Route Army General Lin Piao, regarded as the ablest Chinese strategist now in the field, returned from a raid with 600 of his men who were dressed as Japanese, mounted on Japanese horses. Their own guerrillas ambushed them, wounded a number, including General Lin, before their identity was established...
Once a year, a grand get-together of U. S. foxhunters (hilltoppers and hunt-club members alike) is held-under the auspices of the National Foxhunters' Association-for the purpose of holding field trials, a hound show and horse show. At Winchester, Ky. last week swank Eastern socialites, sombreroed Texas ranchers, rich Oklahoma Indians and Kentucky hillbillies met on common ground at the 45th annual foxhunters' jamboree. Competitions were open to any foxhunter who had paid his $5 membership fee to the national association...
There were two field-trial events: the three-day Chase Futurity, a test for foxhounds under two years old. and the three-day All-Age Stake, considered the national championship...
...team will train at Saint Sauveur, Quebec, and after midyears at Woodstock, Vermont. Spring vacation will be spent at Tuckerman's ravine, where the Mountaineering Club has a cabin. But beginning on December 1, weekly training periods consisting of cross-country work and exercises will be held on Soldiers Field...
...cries have been so insistent that they have not ceased long enough to consider whether or not anything is being done about it. Several years ago in Eliot House joint tutorial conferences were set up in an attempt to draw the students out of the isolation of their own field of concentration and show them that a subject can be approached in more ways than one. Spasmodically a few other Houses pursued the same plan, but it was only the initiative of a few men that saved an extremely beneficial custom from dying out. Here is a palliative...