Word: stadium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stadium employe whose job it was to run the flags of winning countries up the highest of the three flagpoles on the stadium's peristyle was pleased by the final of the 1,500-metre race. From where he stood, watching the tiny runners crawl around the track, a bunched field thinning out on the last lap while one dark little man sprinted furiously to get in front,it was impossible to see who had won; but after the race was over, the employe received, for the first time, the signal to hoist the Italian flag...
...pass Lehtinen twice in the homestretch. Both times Lehtinen had moved over and blocked him. Chief Judge Arthur Holtz of Germany finally announced that "No. 125 [Lehtinen] did not wilfully interfere with No. 433 [Hill] . . . ," gave the race to Lehtinen. For the first time during the Games, the stadium crowd set up a mighty BOO ! Ralph Hill filed no official protest...
First noise in the ceremony was the thump of a drum outside the stadium. This was the signal for Vice President Curtis to walk across the field, sit down with the members of the Olympic Committee. After a choir of 1,000, dressed in white, had sung the ''Star-Spangled Banner," came the parade of athletes. First in the parade were the Greeks; then in alphabetical order, came the Argentines, in green coats and white trousers, the Australians, in white suits and sun helmets, the Canadians, in bright red coats, and a single Egyptian, wearing a red fez and carrying...
...trumpeters on a turret above the stadium blew a loud salute. Outside the stadium, a field gun went off ten times. From an urn over the main gate of the stadium there was a burst of flame, pale in the bright afternoon, from the Olympic torch that will burn for 16 days...
...since France won the Davis Cup in 1927 has Paris been so excited about the challenge round as it was last week. A crowd of 10,000 filled Roland Garros Stadium so full that when Dwight Filley Davis, U. S. doubles champion (with Holcombe Ward) in 1899-1901. who put up the Davis Cup in 1900, arrived there was no place for him to sit. Instead of being taken to the box occupied by President Albert Lebrun, Mr. Davis vas allowed to sit in a stand reserved for superfluous officials. Irked, he went home after one match...