Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Moscow's big Dynamo Stadium, which looks like a Hotchkiss firstformer's dream of the Yale Bowl, put on a show that made the U.S. collegiate spirit look limp. Occasion: the Soviet Union jutbol (soccer) championship final between Moscow's red-jerseyed Spartak eleven (made up of cooperative workers) and the blue-jerseyed Dynamo team from Tiflis (who represented the Georgian Republic's interior ministry...
...Dynamos seemed pretty sure to win. Nevertheless, hours before game time, streams of Muscovites poured toward the stadium. Hundreds of small boys swarmed over or through the high iron fence, as mounted police tried to round them up and chase them out. Throngs funneling through the stadium ramps were so dense that the gate control collapsed. Some people waved tickets. Others just waded in, until 100,000 jammed the stadium, which seats 75,000. They ignored the steady drizzle which iced the rails and benches. When the local boys, the underdog Spartaks, came from behind...
...going on four years old. Last week Major General Leslie R. Groves, military matrix of The Bomb, announced that the Atomic Age began officially on Dec. 2, 1942, when the first uranium pile started working under the west stands of the University of Chicago's football stadium. The Army's Manhattan Project, said the General, would observe Dec. 2 as "a milestone in the advancement of science." He did not guess how the rest of mankind would feel about...
...Tuesday evening meeting, the Council heard a report from Brennon W. Chandler '45 which suggested the use of sites on Western Avenue behind Harvard Stadium, several vacant lots around Harvard Square, and the Eliot-Kirkland-Winthrop House triangle...
...that has played considerable good football this fall, with nothing to lose and a great deal of prestige to gain, poses an awkward stumbling block today in the path of Dick Harlow's Varsity squad, as the Crimson team goes in quest of its sixth consecutive victory at the Stadium. Kick-off time 2 o'clock...