Word: stadium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Johnson was instrumental in the construction of the Stadium on Soldiers Field and determined the kind and strength of iron and concrete necessary for a margin of safety. To test the strain which a crowd of enthusiastic football spectators would put it to, he had the entire varsity squad jump up and down on some trial benches...
...London the Lord Bishop of London last week presided at "Evensong" in a stadium whose vastness was needed to accommodate a multitude of Church of England pious...
...mile was the one event of the afternoon which will be talked about in sporting circles around the world. The young New Zealander wearing the Dark Blue of Oxford jogged merrily through a mile race in 4 minutes 12.6 seconds, the fastest time over done in the Stadium or in the Harvard-Yale Oxford-Cambridge meets. He did three grueling laps around the track politely paced by Horan of Cambridge. With the gun for the last lap he went off on a race of his own, and crossed the finish line some hundred yards ahead of his closest competitor...
Saturday athletic teams representing two of the greatest American and English universities enjoyed an afternoon of friendly rivalry in track and field events at the Stadium. There are pacificists in this country who make great rejoicing every time there is such a contest, an international debate, an exchange professorship, or a worldwide congress of scientists, as if every group that contained citizens from two different nations was a link in the chain to hold back the dogs of war. The newspapers know this and pepper their columns with items about good-will flights and good-will conventions...
Great arc lights flooded the City College Stadium in New York last week. Some 12.000 people clambered up the bleachers. Dozens more dotted the roofs of the dingy apartment houses nearby-to look down into the football arena which had been converted into summer concert grounds for the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Willem van Hoogstraten, looking like a college boy in his white flannel pants, made the opening concert a memorial to Brahms and Wagner.* He flicked his baton in militant, routine fashion but most of the orchestramen needed no leading. They could have played the familiar music with their...