Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night last week in the 105th Field Artillery Armory in The Bronx a weary group of men turned up their visors, pushed back their chairs on which they had been sitting for 24 days. They had just completed a count of 2,013,101 ballots. It had been going on since November 5, the longest and biggest counting job ever undertaken in any U. S. city. New York had replaced its old board of aldermen with a new city council, and the council's members were the first city officials ever to be elected by proportional representation...
...came next, the middle-aged troops of the Son of Heaven who are invading China while his better, hardier and younger soldiers guard Manchukuo against Soviet Russia. After the infantry came machine guns, then mountain guns dismantled and packed on skinny horses, finally rumbling heavy artillery, munitions wagons and field artillery corps-the whole Victory Parade of such length that it took half-an-hour to pass a given point...
...Field Marshal Sir Cyril John Deverell, 63, and four other elderly British generals called by request at the War Office in London last week, stepped one by one into the private office of Leslie Hore-Belisha and handed in their resignations. Almost immediately came word that 50 other general officers had been passed over to make way for new Chief of the Imperial General Staff Major General John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker Viscount Gort...
Captain Chester E. Sargent, coaching Harvard polo this year for the first time, will field a trio composed of Jack Lewis at number one, Gaylord Dillingham at number two, and Warwick Stabler at back. Lewis and Dillingham, acting captain, come up from last year's Freshmen, while Stabler saw service on the Varsity...
Probation is the only throat to a near-brilliant team this year. On the basis of the Yale meet last spring all but one of the outstanding men in each track and field event have returned...