Word: loops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning. Whistles blew and bells rang for a full five minutes throughout Chicago. An aerial bomb broke over the Lagoon as the day's 10,000th visitor pushed through the turnstiles. Two bombs signaled the arrival of the 20,000th. Buglers posted on "L" platforms throughout the Loop blew long & loud at high noon. Schools closed. Early in the afternoon a bewildered grey-haired grandmother was whisked off to the Administration Building where, as the 16,000,000th visitor of 1934, she was presented with a five-acre farm and enough clothes, clocks, books and food to fill a truck...
Coming off the loop, Playfair and Pier led by sixty yards, followed by Minor and Woodland of Yale with Woodard and Channing a few yards behind, Hogan faded to seventh, Channing of Yale was next, and Walker came in ninth...
...Hampshire took the lead early in the race, Webster and Matthews striding out ahead of Harvard's quintet. As they neared the loop, the two New Hampshire runners still held the lead, with Playfair, Pier, Woodard, Scheu, and Channing close behind, all bunched within a space of ten yards...
Coming off the loop, Webster of New Hampshire had faded, and Matthews led the pack, with Pier and Playfair at his shoulder. Captain Woodard, Scheu, Channing, and Fred Webster followed them, with intervals of fifty yards between...
...last Shaggy buffalo on the Western plains. Pre-empted the last free land-Now it is time (I have known it long in my heart} for this country To twist a lariat of us and throw it Over the ocean-to-ocean-flinging land And flip its loop across the lifted, crashing Defiant horns of the wild American spirit And with a twist around the saddle horn Drop it to earth, and on its sprawling hide Burn the clear new-world brand that unto men Shall be a witness of our heritage Wherever that great untamable beast shall toss...