Word: soft
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...began work on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. The cinder track was in very good condition considering the time of year, and all men were sent from two to four laps at a brisk jog. No pole vaulting or jumping was attempted, because the clay take-offs are still too soft. Mr. Graham was out for the first time since his illness and gave the men their instructions. The character of the work for the next week will be varied so that when the track and take-offs become hard the men will be in good condition to begin training...
...assay laboratory to be known as the "Simpkins Assay Laboratory" has been fitted up in a large room in the new addition on the east side of the building. It is equipped with nine double muffle soft coal furnaces and all apparatus necessary for assaying. It will accommodate a class of fifty men, while the former assay laboratory would not accommodate more than a quarter of that number...
...lunch room in the basement of the Union opens today. All kinds of soft drinks and light lunches will be served, and siphons of seltzer and vichy will be filled. On week days the room will be open from 8 a. m. until 12.30 a. m.; on Sundays from 8 a. m. until...
...eastern end of the basement is occupied by the kitchen, scullery, storage rooms, dining and dressing rooms for the servants, and a bar-room for soft drinks. The boiler rooms, shower-baths, dressing rooms, and barber-shop also occupy sections of the basement...
...showing in the field events was very poor. There were few performances made in the weight events that gave any indication of good material, and the pole vault was almost as discouraging. The soft condition of the runways accounted in part for the mediocre work in the jumps...