Word: turfed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...baseball candidates hurled pellets around Briggs Cage, the wheels in the H.A.A. ground and spewed out the 1948 schedule for Dolph Samborski's moundsmen. Samborski, having made the big cut last week, has some two weeks of indoor practice left before the nine heads South to try some snowless turf...
...wage-earners last week, there were a few surprises. MGM's Louis B. Mayer, whose name usually leads all the rest, had slipped to third. At the head of the list was Charles Skouras, president of National Theatres Amusement Corp., with $568,143. The Los Angeles Turf Club's Charles Strub, who runs Santa Anita Park, was second ($541,412), well ahead of Mayer ($502,571). International Business Machines Corp.'s Thomas J. ("Think") Watson was fourth ($425,548). A new name was in fifth place: F. E. Fowler, president of liqueur-making Southern Comfort Corp...
Radcliffe President W. K. Jordan and three queens of spades seized shovels firmly yesterday morning, delved up four clods of Quadrangle turf, and started a chain reaction which will end sometime in 1949 when the last brick of Moors Hall, seventh Annex dormitory is mortared...
...embroglios, probably none has equalled the drama of those from 1929 to 1931 when one of Harvard's all time greats, Barry Wood, played opposite the Eli's "little boy Blue", crafty placekicking specialist Albie Booth. In 1929, both met for the first time as sophomores on the turf of the Bowl. Booth missed a field goal that might have turned the tide, and Harvard walked off victorious, 10 to 6. Sportscribe Arthur Daley has called the game one of football's classics...
Today the College representatives in the sixty-fourth Yale game will test the turf in the Bowl at 2:15 o'clock. Terse printed instructions road in part: "Nine o'clock, train leaves South Station; 12:15, lunch (in New Haven); 12:35, taping; 2:15, practice in Yale Bowl; 4:45, Busses leave for Choate school at Wallingford; 7:30, squad meeting...