Word: oval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard Stadium will hold 2400 additional spectators at the Yale game on Nov. 22, the Athletic Association revealed yesterday. To accommodate the anticipated demand for tickets, temporary stands will be constructed in the open end of the oval...
...executive's trifocals. Most of the field (both sides and the middle) consists of plastic with no magnification, corrected only for distortion caused by the refractive errors in the patient's eye. This is for middle distance-3 to 25 ft. At the top is a thick oval lens, apres Fresnel, with three-power magnification for distance-"infinity," which begins at 25 ft. At the bottom is a similar lens with magnification of 3 to 20 diameters for reading, sewing or benchwork. Cost of the three-in-one lighthouse...
Ford will have new bumpers and fenders, more pronounced fins, round instead of oval tail lights. The grille is new to avoid last year's cheese-grater effect. The new Ford look: "quiet refinement...
...five and the relay. In the 440, Al Gordon continued his amazing running, fighting off a challenge by Eli Bob Skerritt at the top of the stretch to win by five yards in 49.1 seconds, excellent time in the teeth of the miniature gale whipping around the Soldiers Field oval...
...Jones (who edits an English little magazine) to Peter Heliczer. Even I. A. Richards and a San Francisco poet contribute minor works. Taken as a lump (or, with Mr. Wyman's permission, a "citadel") the poets are craftsmen of word and form, but that's about all. Images like "oval charm" and "cockpit of empyreuma" sound better sans inspection. And some of the poems rhyme...