Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fair weather did much of offset the slightly soggy ground and the chilly wind at Soldiers' Field as Coach Slattery's baseball squad took their last work-out of the week on the Freshman field yesterday. There will be no practice today, but on Monday, the whole squad, including the pitchers, will desert the cage for out-door practice...
...only advantage the University team can be said to have, lies in the psychological effect of fighting on its own ground. The Crimson fencers have also had more actual match practice than the Yale foilsmen, having played eight matches to their opponents' three...
...Ground-keeper Dennis Enwright has kept a large corps of workmen busy on both the Freshman and the University diamonds ever since the snow went away. He paused in his labors yesterday long enough to say to a CRIMSON reporter, "The field is in fine shape. Unless it freezes tonight or rains tomorrow, the Freshman diamond will be ready tomorrow, but no one will set foot on the University field for a few days...
...census) have aroused many foreign groups and nations to protest. But last week's fight centred principally on the provision for absolute exclusion of all aliens ineligible for citizenship, meaning especially Japanese. Secretary of State Hughes had previously opposed that provision on the ground that it would offend Japan. The total exclusion provision would break the commercial treaty of 1911 which allowed Japan to send immigrants, but was accompanied by a "gentleman's agreement" that the Japanese Government would not issue passports to the laboring class. To save the treaty and the agreement and amity of Japan, Secretary...
When questioned as to the probable cause of the accident Mr. W. S. Burke, Inspector of the Grounds and Buildings, cited two possible reasons. "There might have been a seam in the rock, which was enlarged by the freezing of the water that soaked into it during the recent storm or the stone might have been a so-called, patched stone. When these patched stones are exposed to the weather, the mending material usually deteriorates and lets in the water, and in a very short time the stone is broken up. Defects of this kind, when near the ground...