Word: turf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Hardy first planted the literary flag in the rural turf of England. Since then Sheila Kaye-Smith, T. F. Powys and many another have followed him. Doomsday, in Sussex, most resembles Miss Kaye-Smith's work...
...mirrors the fleecy clouds, and then, having arrived at the diamond, he will stretch out on the grass--being careful to lay a coat beneath him to ward off possible rheumatism--and there lying will spend the afternoon in the pleasant contemplation of baseball, sunshine and soft turf. All this of course, if it doesn't rain. If it does--but it won't so why worry...
...guinea "and up" per bunk, thus saving many an onlooker from a damp night on the moors or pub floors. The morning brought black skies, torrential rains. Sporting Eng land, drenched, excited, gathered at the famed Aintree course; issued 150,000 prayers for better weather; surveyed the soggy turf and swollen streams with misgivings: hoped their favorites liked...
...month of April begins this year with a squad which has reached a higher point of development than any Coach Mitchell has had in recent years. The outdoor sessions, made possible at an earlier date than usual and the present excellence of the Soldiers Field turf, will undoubtedly prove a valuable asset later in the season, when the 36 game schedule will call for unusually good condition on the part of the players...
...turf, according to Dennis Enright, caretaker of Soldiers Field, is in excellent condition, and the goal posts have already been moved back ten yards from the goal lines to satisfy the new regulations...