Word: sods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...true university approach to aviation goes a long way beyond motors and wings. Just how far it goes was suggested last week as the University of Illinois got ready to turn the sod on what will be the No. 1 university-owned airfield in the U.S. The 800-acre, $2,500,000 Champaign County field will be the center of many kinds of research. Possibilities...
...office boom itself is not quite so anarchic as it looks. Most of the season's horrors, though often an unconscionable time a-dying, have died. Of 33 shows that have opened, 19 are under the sod. It is largely to plays of a certain age-last season's Star and Garter, The Doughgirls, Janie and a raft of others-that Broadway's rich playboys & girls still pay lucrative court...
...nearby Lynchburg the sod was fresh on the grave of William G. Suhling, former captain-elect of Virginia's football team, Marine volunteer killed in California flight training. Also dead were former football captains John Acree (killed in Pacific naval action), Lewis G. Reiss (killed in Army flight training), 57 other fighting alumni...
...last season is over for a while, and the ghosts of Crimson teams will be tearing up the sod at Soldiers Field next fall. There will be no Crimson around to report those games, but they should be lulus...
...faculty would love it, too, Bill. Kirtley Mather would be out there plumbing the sod for rocks, sort of an agricultural sapper in the van of the plow. And out beyond a potato patch would be Derwent Whittlesey, examining the topography of the 10-yard line from an economic standpoint. Sorokin could investigate the effect of farm life upon the Average College Man and Woman. We would have the linguists harking to the guttural shouts of the plowmen. The Grant Study would stage a mass invasion, weighted down with electrodes and calipers. Norman Fradd, the News Office, Professor Merk (History...