Word: fields
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...important half of the first inning started when number two man Lou Kreuizer bounced one into the right field seats for a ground rule double...
...organize a regional plan for Southern higher education. Now, for the first time, the South will share its facilities, sending medical, dental and veterinary medicine students wherever the best schools, public or private, may be. Thus a university can afford to be strong in one field without wasting its substance in trying to com pete in all the others...
...years ago, Chancellor Robert > Hutchins of the University of Chicago foresaw all this when he wrote: "Each endowed university still acts as though it were alone in the world, required to give every course and investigate every segment of every field. The reason for this is partly inertia . . . and partly vanity. One university cannot hold up its head if the university next door has a school of animal husbandry and it has none . . . Although this kind of comparison is doubtless better for the universities than appraising them in terms of their football scores, its educational consequence is mediocrity...
...military authorities in the Philippines have called inaccurate a report (TIME, June 5) that Huks "boldly raided the U.S. air base at Clark Field" a few weeks ago. In an attempt to enter the central fenced-in area of the U.S. air base, unidentified prowlers did cut the fence wire, but were driven off by U.S. gunfire. Clark Field has had other and more serious troubles, however. For many months approaching airplanes, ground patrols and individual Clark Field personnel have been repeatedly fired on by bushwhackers lurking at night on the edges of the sprawling military reservation. Several U.S. airmen...
...second round began, the 165-man field was as keyed up as invasion troops on Dday. More than one old tournament hand had already come to grief along the tight, twisting fairways of the rugged Merion Golf Club course on the Main Line west of Philadelphia. A sample of the hazards ahead was the score-killing 11th hole, where a stream curls in front of the ice-slick green, curls back around the other side to swallow up any approach that overshoots the flag...