Word: stadia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nine riotous years the late Huey Long's Louisiana State University seemed the answer to a collegian's dream. Upon his students the Kingfish lavished two luxurious athletic stadia, a huge gymnasium, a mammoth coliseum, the longest U. S. swimming pool, 100 grand pianos, the best football team and the biggest band that money could buy. Fabulous were the parties and the football junkets he threw for L. S. U. students. Long, his L. S. U. president, James Monroe Smith, his hand-picked trustees and his legislators thrust scholarships upon them (last year...
...showy public monuments. Before the War only 5% of the national income was spent on armaments-and that was a time when Colonel House was reporting that Berlin presented a spectacle of "militarism run stark mad." Today one-fourth of the national income goes for guns, fortresses and stadia for the self-glorification of Nazi party meetings...
Soccer does not have the bruising contact or the spectacular tactics which lend an air of dramatic excitement to football. What is more important, it has not received the publicity which attracts the colorful myriads into football stadia. Consequently, the Harvard soccer team has won most of its games before vacant stands and empty sidelines, and its victories have been unaccompanied by streamer headlines on sports pages. Even when it defeated Yale to conclude its most successful season since 1914, to win the New England Intercollegiate League title, and to become Big Three champion, there was comparatively little stir...
...content with just one big stadium for outdoor shows and one big hall for indoor shows, the Nazis will have no less than five stadia and four halls-a place for everything-when they get through building in 1943. Not yet completed are the Exhibition Hall, the Kultur Hall, the Nazi Congress Hall, the March Field where an army corps will be able to maneuver, or the New Stadium for party sports. But Nazis do pretty well with what is already...
What are the desired ends which could not be harmonized with the noble desire "to play this game with the highest type of sportsmanship" -- simply to have winning teams, to compete at all costs, to fill the stadia...