Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...courts, he replied that this generally yields only eight days of skating, that the water sinks into the ground too rapidly, and that the sun ruins the surface very quickly. However, he is considering the construction of a concrete surface suitable for flooding in the area shaded by the Stadium...
...annually in maintenance over and above the revenue taken in from renting the ice to the public and to nearby schools such as Lawrenceville. Furthermore, the H.A.A. would have to follow a policy on any rink of its own similar to its policy with regard to the Stadium, which is never rented to the public because of the adverse criticism that might arise from a tax-free institution competing on equal terms with other local tax-paying organizations. All in all, the cost would be tremendous...
...ninth opponent for the 1947 Varsity football team was added to the Crimson schedule yesterday, with the announcement by the H.A.A. that the Western maryland eleven will visit the Stadium on September 27 as the opening foe for Coach Dick Harlow's forces next fall...
...squash court under the stands of the University of Chicago's football stadium, a curious structure had grown, watched by the hopeful, nervous eyes of some of the world's best physicists. It was built of dead-black graphite bricks with small cubes of uranium or uranium oxide imbedded in some of their corners...
...enough to have temples, statues and hieroglyphs. Tikal, in Guatemala, may have had a population of 200,000 or more; its ruins cover several hundred acres, and include five temples, one of them over 200 feet high. Copan, in Honduras, has within its inner group of buildings a sizable stadium, sculptured stairways, terraces, pyramids. At Chichen Itza and Uxmal in Yucatan were colonnades, palaces, and a series of stone courts on which a basketball-like game was played...