Word: stadia
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...Argentina soccer is known as futbol. Every autumn Sunday 18 major league teams play it in stadia throughout Buenos Aires. Every Sunday Argentine fans reach a fine pitch of emotion. Last week, as Argentine's autumn got under way, Sunday crowds saw many a fine futbol game. At one a River Plate player assaulted and broke the jaw of an opponent. He was held for trial on $5,000 bail. Another was arrested for kicking his opponent in the stomach. Exhilarated, the crowd began to throw rocks at the players. Some took out revolvers and fired furiously into...
...schools are sufficiently well-equipped with large capacity stadia to make five games profitable. It the championship of the Middle West, perhaps of the nation, is to be decided in a charity game, why not make it a full game and give the spectators their money's worth...
...Association in New York to see an exhibition of student work from 26 U. S. colleges, universities, museum schools. It was not overinspiring. From New Hampshire to Texas, the student body of the U. S. presented anatomical drawings, studies in perspective, hand-dyed batiks, linoleum cuts, designs for football stadia and perfume bottles "according to the laws of dynamic symmetry," and a number of paintings in oil. Critics were most interested in the exhibit from Yale. Prominent on the faculty of the Yale Department of Fine Arts is kinetic Eugene Francis Savage, Leffingwell Professor of Painting. Professor Savage...
...present uniform is simple, moderately dignified, and wholly practical. It is distressing to notice how widespread is the belief that college undergraduates exist purely to put on a good show for the crowds that fill the football stadia. If the band's costume be criticized for being too "high-schooly", it might be remembered that after all Harvard is only a college, and not the U. S. Army, the U. S. Navy, the Boston fire Department, nor even the American Legion...
...metre event for women at Amsterdam in 1928, in which several girls collapsed. Gustavus Kirby, U. S. delegate, led the opposition. The French proposal, finally put to vote, was overwhelmingly defeated. In the Olympic games of 1932 women will run, fence and hurdle, swim, skate and ski. Stadia. At Amsterdam there was only one training field. At Los Angeles there will be 15. Seat facilities of the Los Angeles stadium have been increased from 76,000 to 105,000. The Olympic Auditorium is ready with 12,000 seats for the boxing, wrestling and weight-lifting events. The museum next...