Word: golden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Stadium, when the I. C. A. A. A. A. celebrates its golden anniversary, the 220 yard event will be held for the forty-ninth time. The event was held for the first time in 1877, one year after the title meet was inaugurated. It will be interesting to observe whether a span of thirty years will pass without witnessing the lowering of the "220" record. Frankly, such a development would not surprise...
...Derby. Yale, Penn, Columbia -they would finish in that order, prophets said. The Yale crew of course has acquired, in the last three years, a legend of invincibility; people thought that Penn had a good crew, but not good enough; Columbia was not in it. In a wash of golden light that would have been sunset if daylight-saving had not turned it into midafternoon, the boats moved out; Penn was in front, Yale next, Columbia last. A mile went by. Was a Yale crew going to be beaten? The coxswain did not think so; he put his hand...
...brown bees of Ireland are never forgotten, in their clean skips by golden-thatched cottages. And blue turf smoke is there, and all the birds of Ireland...
...gray goose, the barking golden eagle, the fleet azure kingfisher, the white triangles of lonely wild swans. These come in the book's many interludes, as where Neddy Joe, the ancient lodge-keeper, sits in warm sunshine tying salmon flies out of bright feathers and passing crabbed strictures on all the folk he best loves. At an inn with a white sand floor and bacon flitches hanging in the rafters, a poet with the face of a thousand wrinkles relates how a great Irish bard, Dan Hoyser (Tannhäuser!), met Venus in Germany's mountains...
...accomplished archeologist-the book recites in Thompson's own words the feats of dredging, and then diving, to the bottom of the home of Yum Chac, the Rain God-a limestone sinkhole 160 feet across and 150 feet deep-where virgins and warriors, decked with jade and golden bells, accompanied by balls of copal (aromatic resin), rubber and cotton goods, pottery, engraved golden disks, weapons, tiaras, brooches, mirrors, were flung as sacrifices from the high brink (TIME, Nov. 16, SCIENCE...