Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...establishment of the United States Military Academy at West Point was the result of numerous considerations, mainly strategic and topographical. The sudden volte-face here of the Hudson was seized upon by Revolutionary military leaders as the logical place to hinder hostile passage of the river; and the long, tragic interlude of Arnold and Andre, with the failure of the British campaign treacherously supported by them, is interwoven with the importance of this region in the war. The close of the Revolution brought recommendations for the continuance of an army training post here; a Military Academy had been suggested...
...outward view most press-boxes present simply two or three long counters with benches behind them. They are not boxes, really, because they have no covers? They are eminently uncomfortable places. When the wind blows, as it frequently does, the occupants of the press seats get it all; when it rains, they rapidly become what Mr. Mantalini called "demn'd damp, moist, unpleasant bodies...
...Massachusetts defeated Siwash on a wet field here today, 27-0. The long passes of the Bay Staters were too much for the men from the West...
This accounts for the occasional retractions of the loud speaker: "Brown has the ball. He's off! He's through for forty-yards! No, wait a minute, folks, I think it was Jones carried it. Wait a minute, now, we'll see about this . . . . (Long Pause) . . . . It was Smithers who took the ball, folks, a beautiful run of 15 yards . . . ." Sometimes a keen listener over the radio may hear the voice of the press announcer before the radio man gets...
...press box personnel, besides reporters, telegraphers, spotters, announcers, and radio men, is composed of the leisure class of the newspaper fraternity. The rear rows of the press seats are filled with men from the morning papers, who have no story to send through the game, but can wait until long afterwards to wire a carefully considered account to their editors. Above the din of telegraph instruments and typewriters, these gentlemen sit at their ease, in attitudes suggesting expert opinion in repose...