Word: turf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aggregation is reputedly of unusual strength. The power of the CRIMSON nine has been amply demonstrated by its well earned mental and moral victory over the strong Princetonian batsmen last Saturday. The journalist ball players have enjoyed a complete rest from their bruising encounter on the New Jersey turf and are eagerly anticipating this afternoon's fracas with their time-honored rivals...
...followed day. Impatient, fretful, the three Germans waited for clearing weather. There was nothing to do but pace the turf of Baldonnel Airdrome, inspecting and reinspecting their Junkers plane and its powerful Junkers engine. Talk in idleness led to argument. Baron von Huenefeld spoke a fiery word. Mechanic Spindler packed his bag, left, and then there were only two. No one dared ask the tight-lipped Prussian exactly...
...York clubs have been trying to develop a Jewish player. There are plenty of Italians, Swedes, Irishmen in baseball-few Jews. Critics have pointed out that a Jewish star on a New York team would pack in thousands of new spectators at every game. And now, on the bright turf in front of them, the people saw a Jew begin his career-Andy Cohen, second baseman, picked from the minor leagues to take the place of the famed Rogers Hornsby. And when Cohen had brought home the first Giant run of the season, had driven in the tying and winning...
...fall the team will practice on the 90 pigmy gridirons, giving them all the same rough treatment. At the end of the season, the grass which best holds up its head will be the chosen turf for the future football teams of Illinois...
...airports, too, grass is being scientifically studied. Messrs. Stump and Walter, turf technicians and theorists, having had long experience with golf courses and polo fields, now offer a formula giving the best combination of grass seeds to produce a proper landing field...