Word: oval
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roller Derby is a watered down potpourri of several sports. It combines the speed of racing, the jamming of a six-day bicycle race, the blocking of football, the checking of hockey, and the team-play of basketball. It is played on an oval, highly-banked maconite track, 16 laps to a mile, by two teams of five players each. Each club has two teams--one of men, one of women--which race for alternate 15-minute periods. Two halves of four 15-minute periods each constitute a night's competition...
Though he is not as much of a baseball fan as Mrs. Truman-who went to New York to watch the World Series-he watched the Yankee-Dodger games in the afternoon either on the twelve-inch television screen in the Oval Room or at Blair House. He cleaned up pressing business, solemnly signing the $1,314,010,000 European arms bill and the $5,809,990,000 foreign economic aid bill. Then, at week's end, he set out for Charlottesville, Va. by automobile to spend two days with his poker-party friend, Stanley Woodward, the State Department...
After deciphering the document and verifying its authenticity, Dr. Eulalia Guzman, the National Museum's chief of historical research, led an expedition to Ixcateopan. There, beneath the altar of Santa Maria de Asuncion, diggers uncovered a huge stone slab with a large oval copper disc. Under a small cross at the top were the words Senor y Rey. Beneath them was the name Coatemo (one of the alternate spellings of Cuauhtemoc...
...Cornell team arrives at 9:05 a.m. today at the Huntington Avenue Station. The Big Red will work out in the Stadium from 2:30 to 4 p.m., after which Harvard will follow it into the oval. The Cornell team will stop at the Kenmore Hotel during its stay in Boston...
...directors of Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., Ltd. meet in the cream-walled board room of London's Britannic House. They sit around an oval mahogany table beneath a huge, hanging globe of the world which helps them follow Anglo-Iranian's worldwide operations. This week, they were there for the company's 40th annual meeting. With a Scottish twinkle, gaunt, grey Sir William Eraser, for eight years Anglo-Iranian's chairman and operating head, imparted the good news: Anglo-Iranian had turned in 1948 earnings of ?50.7 million ($204.3 million) before taxes, the biggest...