Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Stadium is the colossus of the University's athletic facilities. Built around the turn of the century, the Stadium has a capacity of around...
...Stadium has some historical significance in that it is the oldest concrete-supported stadium in America. At one time a bowl, it was reduced to its present horseshoe shape in the 1930s. Temporary stands are moved into the open end of the Stadium for the Dartmouth and Yale games...
...each new temple, nobler than the last," wrote Oliver Wendell Holmes, "shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast!" Poet Holmes was referring to mansions of the soul, but he might well have been prophesying today's pharaonic era of sports-stadium construction, in which city after city vies to encapsulate its populace in ever nobler temples and vaster domes...
...Astrodome and pronounced it the Eighth Wonder of the World, New Orleans will stage the "grand opening" of its 97,365-capacity Louisiana Superdome, which could absorb the 66,000-seat Astrodome with room to spare. Last week Pontiac, Mich., opened its 80,400-seat, $55.7 million Metropolitan Stadium, 25 miles northwest of Detroit, with an exhibition football game between the Detroit Lions and the Kansas City Chiefs. Seattle hopes to complete the dome on the 60,000-seat, $60 million King County Stadium next year "in time for the baseball season"-even though Seattle does not as yet have...
When the A's took the field and began warming up with the new orange balls, the stadium buzzed with comment. Even Home Plate Umpire George Maloney was captivated. He dispatched the A's bat boy to ask Finley for a ball. When it was delivered, Maloney promptly sent it back?for an autograph...