Word: sward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Although groundskeepers covered the Stadium sward with canvas last night, the rain which weather forecasters say will continue throughout today may eventually mean slippery footing and a wet ball--which would hurt Valpey's precise, ballet-like single wing spinners and pitchouts more than it would affect Hickman's straight-ahead T attack...
Should Harvard lose on the Hanover green sward, perish the thought, let no Radcliffe colleen essay the role of Lady Macbeth. T'would be needless to say "Out, dammed spot, out, I say.' One, two; why, then 'tis time to rue 't.--Defeat is dark...
With an eye to avenging their earlier 12 to 6 defeat at the hands of Boston. University this summer, the Varsity nine will trot on the Nickerson Field green sward at 3 o'clock this afternoon...
...type of grass that Southerners are hailing as the ideal verdant sward was reported from Louisville last week. It grows a lush, vivid green in the hottest, dryest weather, rarely needs to be mowed (it seldom grows more than four inches tall), does equally well in sun or shade, is so tough that an automobile skid does not scar it. In the south, it has been found ideal for airfields, golf tees, parks, and as a general ground cover. For northern areas, there is a hitch: the grass does not grow very successfully in cool climates, and frost turns...
...what's more, it'll fill that Ivy-decked coliseum seven days a week. And what a Godsend it should be for that athletics-for-all program that's been so close to your bosom these many years. I guarantee that you'll get more men out on the sward of the Stadium than ever swarmed upon it during a Heptagonal track meet. And, to top it all. Bill, my plan is long-range, a sure-fire investment. Why, in two years this plan of mine will gross so much that you won't ever have to charge admissions...