Word: stadium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual Friday afternoon open practice of the Varsity squad will be held in the Stadium from 3:15 to 3:45 o'clock this afternoon...
Nominee Roosevelt stated the first half of his thesis most eloquently in Chicago's Stadium when, on the platform from which he delivered his 1932 acceptance speech, he cried: "Four years ago . . . I came to a Chicago fighting with its back to the wall-factories closed, markets silent, banks shaky, ships and trains empty. Today those factories sing the song of industry, markets hum with bustling movement, banks are secure, ships and trains are running full. Once again it is Chicago as Carl Sandburg saw it, 'the city of the big shoulders,' the city that smiles...
...difference of spirit on the two political trains was the difference of reaction each got from crowds along the way. In part it was simply a case of bad breaks for Alf Landon. At Chicago he made his triumphal entry into the city and his drive to the Stadium in a pouring rain which drove even his admirers from the streets. When Franklin Roosevelt followed five days later he had a balmy night and the streets were packed. At Detroit when Nominee Landon spoke at Navin Field ball park the temperature was 43° and barely 10,000 Republicans shivered...
Upsets are weekly occurrences in college football. Thereby hangs the chief hope of Crimson victory when Harvard faces the Green in the Stadium this afternoon at 2 o'clock...
John R. Tunis '11, writing in the American Mercury, has called Harvard's football team semipro, claiming that the College subsidizes athletes so that it can fill its stadium and thus run its huge athletic plant...