Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Novelist John O'Hara (Appointment in Samarra, Butter field 8); and Belle Wylie, Manhattan socialite; in Elkton...
...infernally cold in Chicago last Sunday, when the Washington Redskins played the local Bears for the professional football championship, that they sent asphalt burners out onto Wrigley Field to try to thaw it. They might as well have sent Frigidaires. Because cleats would slip like ice skates on the frozen ground, the teams took to the field wearing basketball shoes. In the stands 14,000 Chicagoans shivered. Some 1,200 Washingtonians were there too, because in the single season they have had a major-league professional team, Washingtonians have gone crazy about the game...
...quick touchdowns, both by Jack Manders, the league's leading scorer. The quarter ended with the Bears leading 14-to-7. The second quarter was scoreless, and Redskin rooters moaned when Sam Baugh was pulled out from under four of the larger Bears and was led off the field. In the third period Sam Baugh came back, limping. He then proceeded to outdo himself, successfully passing while running at full speed, while Bears clung to him, while on one knee. Three of these passes, good for a total of 167 yd., were also good for three touchdowns. The Bears...
...Eastman Kodak laboratories, Rochester, N. Y.-a British bachelor of 41 who likes to give gay cocktail parties, and happens to be more responsible than any other chemist for developing the technique of vitamin distillation-described the results which he and his co-workers have obtained in this new field...
...fact that the foreign language departments offer numerous courses in the drama of each of the foreign countries. If, then, a language requirement in French and German were established for those wishing to concentrate in comparative drama, no courses in English would have to be added to the field of Comparative Literature, and concentrators in the drama would be enabled to read foreign plays in the original tongue. So, as a solution to the literary aspect of the problem, a two-year language requirement in both French and German would be most satisfactory...