Word: meadow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...101st running of the Grand National Steeplechase in England last week, 250,000 people swarmed over the vast reach of meadow south of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal near Aintree, where 37 fine horses faced the grueling 4-mile, 856-yard, twice-around chase over 30 time-honored jumps of thorn, gorse, fir, spruce and water, each hoary with legend...
...landing gear down. He weathered innumerable forced landings and is one of the few air travelers who ever landed on an airport backwards. On that occasion the pilot overshot Chicago airport, bounced off the far end of the runway, cleared an embankment, and fetched up in a soggy meadow. The passengers sat, wondering what next, when suddenly the grounded airliner started backwards out of the swamp, rumbled over the embankment and back on the runway tail first, towed, they soon found out, by an airport tractor. Frank Black, who finds the lofty detachment of air travel just the ticket...
Since anthropology then consisted mainly of the Greek and Roman myths as related by Ovid, he had to rely on his imagination. He painted a troop of satyrs and demi-mortals congregating in a meadow around a hollow tree, a young bibulous Bacchus, a grinning Silenus straddling a donkey. Most of the company were engaged in making a racket on tin pans, to coax a swarm of bees into a cluster. Title: The Discovery of Honey...
...York World's Fair grounds at Flushing Meadow Park, L. I., Dr. Wralter O. Robinson of Brooklyn's St. John's University held the first of a series of classes for Fair attendants in "pleasing and effective speech." His aim: "It is not our purpose to make orators of these people, but rather to teach all who shall have a share in publicizing the World's Fair to speak effectively in language as nearly as possible free from defects...
...blond Argentine Roberto Cavanagh (and his Irish brogue) at No. 2, and Jock Whitney at Back, Tommy Hitchcock had demonstrated this summer that he is still the best poloist in the world, despite the fact that he is playing his 26th season of competitive polo. In Meadow Brook's turquoise-blue stands, filled with 36,000 fans last week, there was many a rooter who had staked Tommy Hitchcock against the field...