Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smith's favorite subjects are baseball, football, horse racing, and boxing. However, there are also columns on the Olympic games ("the amateur sporting world's clearest expression of nationalism"), the Indianapolis "500" (a gigantic, grimy lawn party, a monstrous holiday compounded of dust and danger and noise, the world's biggest carnival midway and the closest sporting approach permitted by the Humane Society to the pastimes which once made the Roman Coliseum known as the Yankee Stadium of its day--cars are used in this entertainment because the S.P.C.A. frowns on lions"), on basketball, on the Westminster Kennel Club...
...chemical (maleic hydrazide), developed by U.S. Rubber Co., which kills crab grass, also retards the growth of a lawn without damaging it, thus reducing the necessity for frequent mowing...
After two crowded afternoons of tennis and with only three matches remaining to be played, it appeared last night that Amherst would sweep both the singles and doubles titles in the Eastern Intercollegiate Lawn Tennis Association Tournament...
Twelve New England colleges will be represented on the Soldiers Field courts this morning in the annual New England Intercollegiate Lawn Tennis Association tournament. Play starts at 10 a.m. and will continue tomorrow and Sunday...
...dues were only $6 a month for a family, and its membership included a bakery driver, a farm-implement clerk and two gas-station grease monkeys. This was still unusual, but almost anyone in the Northwest could ski or fish for salmon practically at his front door, build a lawn and admire magnificent mountains as he did so, raise his children decently, and with luck own a boat or a shack in the woods. In moments of contemplation he could fervently pity the unfortunate people "back east"-i.e., all who live between Butte, Mont, and the Atlantic...