Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousand athletes from 50 countries will compete in 22 sports, watched by 3,500,000 spectators, recorded by 1,500 reporters. To accommodate all this, Berlin, cheated of the 1916 Olympics by the War, spent $24,000,000 on municipal improvements; a 325-acre Reichssportfeld including four stadiums, an outdoor theatre, basketball courts, pools, a polo field, a gymnasium; and an Olympic Village conveniently close to Staaken Airport which can use it for barracks when the Games are over...
...Dunster acquaintance of ours, who delights in outdoor interludes, last Thursday evening forsook Dunster's costume affair for a stroll along the river's edge. In the course of their wandering he and the young lady accompanying him saw fit to fall into the Charles...
...Detroiters applauded indiscriminately for Raisa, Jagel, Ghione, raised the loudest tumult when Ghione made for the wings, led out Thaddeus Wronski, the stalky, middle-aged Polish basso who has long fathered the cause of opera in Detroit. Wronski made his first attempt as a producer in 1923 with an outdoor Aïda in the University Stadium. That night it was so hot that the grease paint streamed down the singers' faces. When the performance was about to begin a wind squall broke, blew down the Egyptian temple which was supposed to serve as the first-act scenery. Faithful...
...states: "The biggest attraction of the Drake Relays, as usual, was Queen of the Relays." The Queen was beautiful and occupied an important ten minutes in our crowded time schedule Saturday afternoon, but if she was the biggest attraction, 18,000 people missed seeing: 1) a new U. S. outdoor record at 1,000 yards (time, 2:11.2) by Glenn Cunningham closely pressed by a fine Eastern runner, Harry Williamson of North Carolina; 2) a new U. S. outdoor record in the two-mile run by Don Lash (time, 9:10.6); 3) a new record by an American...
...toughest contenders for first place will be Harvard and Cornell. Although the Crimson defeated the Carnelian's in the Quadrangular Meet this winter, the outdoor competition may be a different story...