Word: background
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reported to be more advanced in training than those of any other nation, with the possible exception of the United States. The training is being carried on at a camp near the Pershing Stadium, which is in reality a university of sport. Using the army organization as a background, the training is carried on with both civilian and military athletes...
When the "Marseillaise" is sung at the Stadium this afternoon it is planned to have the customary white "H" formed on the crimson background. This will be done through the waving of white handkerchiefs by those men whose tickets are designated as being within the outline of the "H", while the other men in the cheering section will form the background by waving crimson handkerchiefs. These handkerchiefs are officially on sale at Brine's and every person whose ticket is marked "red handkerchief" should supply himself with one before the game...
There will be 224 persons in the white "H" and 387 in the crimson background, which includes the two sections from the cement wall at the top to the similar wall at the bottom...
...Through the Roosevelt Country with Roosevelt's Friends," which will follow Mr. Thayer's address, was filmed under the auspices of the Roosevelt Memorial Association and the personal supervision of Hermann Hagedorn '07, author of "The Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt." As a background the film shows such of Roosevelt's hunting grounds as the Bad Lands of the West, Medora, the Kootenai and Big Horn Mountains and the sites of Roosevelt's ranches. Many of Roosevelt's western friends and companions appear in the picture, among them Joe and Sylvane Ferris, Jack Reuter and Mrs. Margaret Roberts...
...Base Hospital No. 5," he continues, "was one of the first six hospitals sent overseas, all of which were apportioned to the British Expeditionary Forces and it happens to be the only one of the three Units organized with a Harvard University background which contributed to the Medical Service...