Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House last week went a Virginia delegation of Izaak Walton Leaguers, led by Congressman Robert Walton Moore. To the President they handed an expensive rod and reel, said it was "a token of esteem and gratitude for the impetus given outdoor sports, particularly fishing, which the President by hi? example has brought to the attention of the whole country...
...drowning out Conductor van Hoogstraten's orchestra and Edwin Franko Goldman's able, obliging band. Adding insult to injury, the plane was advertising cinema, the industry whose "talkies" have thrown some 35,000 musicians out of work. Next day Conductor Goldman protested vigorously to the city authorities. Outdoor concertgoers throughout the land were relieved to hear there is a Federal regulation requiring airmen to stay at least 3,000 feet above cities and crowds. Concert-zooming pilots will get their licenses revoked...
...doesn't play golf, fish, or engage in other outdoor sports. He does play a fair game of bridge and better than average billiards, but he prefers a book, usually one with a historical turn. He is scholarly, keen, well-grounded...
...wants it. Last fall we had five football games with Yale, this spring we are having eight crew races and four baseball games. In other words, we are extending to more students the privilege of meeting our rival, Yale. We have been able to accomplish this with the outdoor games because of the splendid facilities which are offered at Soldiers Field, the land behind the new Business School, Jarvis Field and the Boat Houses on the Charles River...
...will do so again today. The team is at present without the services of captain F. A. Clark '29, who is at Red Top with the crew, but since the first tournament match for Harvard not come until June 22 he will be enabled to play in the outdoor classic, contrary to previous expectations. The scheduled match with Yale at Cambridge for this Saturday has been cancelled since Yale plays Pennsylvania Military College that day in the opening round of the intercollegiates...