Word: stadia
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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...
...Orleans, drivers who park near the coliseum, midtown auditorium or uptown stadia are pestered by urchins or oldsters who offer to watch cars for a small tip. If it is refused, they slash tires, put gravel in the gas tank, disconnect the carburetor. In San Francisco, boys cluster around fashionable restaurants, try to watch cars or get taxis. Philadelphia had a lot of trouble with bands of 12-year-olds who worked a similar racket around Shibe Park, Temple Stadium, Franklin Field, the Convention Hall. Police finally stifled it by making arrests for "malicious mischief." Los Angeles police...
...Admission tickets to Democratic rallies in ball parks and stadia to which Franklin Roosevelt's acceptance speech will be broadcast...
...university's athletic program, thus severing the "vicious connection between football gate receipts and athletic expenditures." This proposal has been hailed by those who bemoan the overemphasis placed on football in paying coaches high salaries, arranging all-star schedules to draw the paying customers and building huge stadia on a commercialized scale. Other institutions should follow Harvard's example, they argue...
...result of a probe recently made of conditions in New Haven and New York, Norton has discovered that both Yale and Columbia are forced to pay taxes on their athletic stadia. The former is assessed a total of more than $20,000 on a $740,000 valuation of the Bowl, adjoining small buildings, and the land on which they stand...