Word: stadia
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...Wall." The boat circled Helgoland, the rocky island and former fortress 28 miles off the Schleswig-Holstein coast. Guided by Pastor Spanuth, it moved toward shore and anchored 50 stadia (5.7 miles) from Helgoland. The diver dropped overboard and walked along the sandy bottom 30 feet below the surface...
...billions which Germany borrowed, chiefly from the U.S. and Britain, during the 19203, a sizable amount went right out again as reparations payments. But with the remainder, Germany completely modernized its heavy industry, built housing projects, athletic stadia...
...share-the-wealth proposal to save college football from losing its ability to pack--or even half-fill--the stadia of strictly amateur colleges, was proposed by Yale Athletic Director Robert A. Hall last night. Hall based his radical plan on the results of the extensive survey conducted last fall at many games--including the Harvard-Dartmouth one--and sponsored by the NCAA...
...believe Mr. Sayre is a little optimistic, however, in calling the substitution of soccer for football an "inevitable development." College football is a financial investment; the players, just as much as the stadia, are its capital; for advertising purposes, the football hero is made to seem a Man Apart just like the gentleman who drinks Calvert; the sentiments, and finally the pocketbooks, of students and of old grads like Mr. Sayre are appealed to with the calculation of any singing commercial. The buying of football players is America's way of delaying government subsidization of education, which is an inevitable...
...Last Spring, the great man of the people from Minnesota, now a college president at Pennsylvania, said it was unfair to the residents of. These United States to limit the number of football games the people could see. A controlled experiment, testing the effect of TV football on the stadia going public, was unconstitutional, according to Harold Stassen, but when he finally decided to give up his charges, he found that he had only succeeded in losing the right to televise one of his games...