Word: sodded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hurdles competition this Saturday will be run on grass, the first time that the Harvard runners have run on the sod in competition this year. The meet will be held on the football gridiron in Franklin Field...
Cleats of the 1936 grid squad sunk in Soldiers Field sod yesterday afternoon, as Dick Harlow directed his men in their first outdoor practice...
Wherever it was, man found a way to go down under the water, to upturn the sod of quiet pastoral lands, to split open the face of majestic hills, and dig out coal...
Kansans began importing greyhounds 65 years ago to rid their lands of jack rabbits. Now Kansas raises more greyhounds than any other state. In it dwell 67% of National Coursing Association members. The springy sod of Abilene's Coursing Park, best in the land, was selected after soil tests in 20 Kansas towns. Last autumn the park was planted with barley. Last fortnight it was mowed down to a bright green turf; a space 450 yd. long and 200 yd. wide was fenced by wire. Every day last week 1,000 to 5,000 spectators went to the park...
...insidious indifference. Long enough has Williams been merely a 'gentleman's college,' for lack of any more vital purpose. None of these outworn epitaphs of an intellectual graveyard does the "Record" intend to extol simply for their own sakes. It is high time that to the weedy, run-down sod we apply not a roller, but a plowshare, in the hope of encouraging some new and greener vegetation...