Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After lunch in Manchester, he spoke to 5,000 unionists in the Bellevue Stadium. The U.S., he cried, has embarked on a course of "ruthless imperialism"; President Truman was rushing to the aid of "every dictator that hoisted the anti-Communist skull and bones...
Sports-minded undergraduates who manage to forsake the Braves-Phillies doubleheader, Suffolk Downa and the Marathon tomorrow afternoon in favor of the curtain-raising Harvard-Brown-Rhode Island State track meet in the Stadium will be amply rewarded...
...himself, no amount of general education had ever dimmed his appreciation for a seat in the bleachers, or an esoteric discussion on the relative merits of Honus Wagner and Marty Marion. He had passed the stage of collecting picture cards and autographed baseballs, when his yearly trip to Yankee Stadium had assumed the proportions of a pilgrimage to Mecca, but increased sophistication and the price of a grandstand seat had served only to pitch his interest on a slightly more detached plane...
Varsity track candidates had another field day at the Stadium Saturday as fat handicaps accounted for more phenomenal performances in the windup of the annual University Handicap...
...handicap meets of this sort are excellent methods of uncovering latent track material; he agreed that "Harvard definitely won the meet!" From now on, though, everybody will have to come through without outside help, because there won't be any handicaps when Brown and Rhode Island State hit the Stadium cinders this Saturday...