Word: turf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hectic half hour furious fusillades swept over the soggy turf of the baseball diamond, the tit-tat-tat of the spitting machine gun sneering at the consistent popping of the rifles. Scouts, grenade dischargers, and wire cutters mingled in the heat of the fray, and many a sailor showed the potential ability of a movie actor by "biting the dust" with a consumate reality of the battle scenes in "What Price Glory." Little pin points of fire from blank shells glowed through the murkiness of the medical men ran about trantically with empty stretchers. All the ghastliness of bloody battle...
Last spring's contests on track, turf, and river were equally productive of victories to both universities until the Elitriumph on the Thames last June settled the final verdict in favor of the New Haven athletes. Harvard's minor sport wins in tennis and golf were balanced by Yale successes in outdoor polo and lacrosse. In the major contests, however, the victory of the powerful Blue eight gave Yale an eleventh hour advantage as far as spring sports went, and evened up the count for the whole year, a hockey win and football tie having placed Harvard ahead...
...Crimson was victorious in the 11 games played, and again in the two contests of 1909 and 1910. That year marked the end of the series, all of which had been played at West Point. The 1928 tilt will mark the debut on the Soldiers Field turf of a Cadet eleven...
...Stay-at-home Englishmen have never seen a "forest" in the U. S. sense, but use this term to describe any large wooded estate, often with turf underfoot as smooth and impeccable as a lawn tennis court...
...Berkeley, Calif., near the Le-Conte School, a .38-calibre revolver cartridge lay on the turf, unnoticed. The sun shone, grass sprouted and along came John Haggerty, school janitor, steering a mowing machine. Blam! Janitor Haggerty cried "YOW!" tottered from his mower bleeding from a bullet-grazed forehead...