Word: ovale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days, thousands of Australians jammed into the green-turfed oval at Adelaide. The happenings there last week made mere squibs in most U.S. newspapers, but they brought passionate growls from all over Britain and headlines in Shanghai and Johannesburg...
...running order will be announced at meet time. The one-mile combine is undefeated so far this season, their best effort coming against Northeastern on the Briggs balcony oval. In whipping the Huskies, Wharton, Ruby, Wheeler, and Flint were clocked in 3:30.1 with Flint misjudging the finish line and jogging the last ten yards. Cliff Wharton, not yet in top condition, will fill in for any of the eight relay men Saturday night if needed...
Rosenfeld, who never competed on the oval before last spring when he ran the mile and two-mile, will be the only returning letterman on the 1947 harrier squad. He won his H this fall in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular meet where he placed third...
...crowded, noisy, littered floor of the New York Stock Exchange, brokers are identified by the big white, oval buttons they wear. Elevator operators, runners, pages also wear buttons-small, white ones. These identify the wearers as members of the independent United Financial Employes Union. Months ago, the small buttons demanded 25% pay boosts from the Big Buttons, and a watered-down version of the closed shop and grievance machinery. Stock Exchange President Emil Schram, biggest of buttons, offered a 10% increase...
...alike are discovering that their right to two or three "preferred" seats means only that they are permitted to watch the game from somewhere inside the gates. Literally hundreds of students will be bravely cheering from sections 39 and 40 or seats even further into the southern end-zone oval; while the best that men with dates can hope for is to find themselves in section 36, which is on the 10 yard line...