Word: winds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University soccer team went down to a 2 to 1 defeat before the powerful Dartmouth outfit in a close game on Soldiers Field yesterday. The game was played in a high wind which tended to throw off the Crimson passing attack, which had been relied upon to offset the individual brilliance of the Dartmouth players...
Soldiers Field, Cambridge, Mass., is surrounded by a dreary, dilapidated stadium; from factory chimneys near it long pennants of smoke twist in the wind and mark the low sky. Into the stadium last week there drifted a drooling drizzle and a cold, odorous draught. North Carolina, accustomed to warm blue afternoons, grew as stiff as a dying hare. Harvard backs called Gilligan and French fooled Carolina ends called Sapp and Presson so well that Harvard won 20-0. --Time...
...substantiate the above I have in front of me a letter from my sister - one of the storms victims - which I will translate in part: "This hurricane was worse than the storm of 1899 (she writes). "We had to move to a house stronger than ours - but the wind shook the walls like a young tree. During one day and night we remained under that house -ours flew away -next day I had no place to go. So I took two pieces of corrugated iron, leaned them against a tree and that is my home and the children...
...outward view most press-boxes present simply two or three long counters with benches behind them. They are not boxes, really, because they have no covers? They are eminently uncomfortable places. When the wind blows, as it frequently does, the occupants of the press seats get it all; when it rains, they rapidly become what Mr. Mantalini called "demn'd damp, moist, unpleasant bodies...
...sacked by wind...