Word: stadium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican Congressmen; by 18 runs to 16 the annual inter-party House of Representatives baseball game: in Griffith's Stadium, Washington, D. C. The Democrats wore the Washington Senators' white "home" uniforms, the Republicans their grey "road" uniforms. Florida's Caldwell, pitching for the Democrats (in Walter Johnson's famed No. 12 suit), blew up in the seventh inning when his team was four runs ahead. New Jersey's Republican Hartley knocked a homerun...
...Latin oration was delivered, also in accord with a long-standing tradition, followed by the new president's inaugural address. In the evening the undergraduates marched with torch-lights to the Stadium, where Lowell greeted them...
...field in the 800-metre final. Eastman moved up to the lead in the home stretch, with five men bunched a stride behind him, Bonthron last of the five. While Eastman and Keller of Pittsburgh thought they were fighting for the lead, Bonthron took the outside lane by the Stadium wall and ran past the field to win by four yards. ¶ The night before the meet, High Jumper George Spitz dropped into a Boston cafeteria, asked for a piece of pie. Said the counterman: "Say, do you think you ought to eat pie, with you jumping tomorrow?" Jumper Spitz...
That afternoon C. C. N. Y.'s President Frederick Bertrand Robinson, 49, walked across the street to Lewisohn Stadium to review a drill of the college's Reserve Officers' Training Corps. When he reached the entrance with his military science department head, Colonel George Chase Lewis, and other guests, he found a Pacifist crowd blocking his way. They jostled him, pinioned his arms for a moment. Then he raised his umbrella, flayed left & right, soon lost his umbrella. Police drove a flying wedge into the mob, surrounded...
President Robinson and convoyed him into the Stadium. Said he, "They were probably Communists from outside. . . . The demonstration [was] aimed particularly at Colonel Lewis." At the review inside the Stadium, the R. O. T. C. band played on against the chanting outside: "War is hell," "Down with...