Word: fields
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...postwar vogue of the T-formation on gridiron after gridiron has made the old-fashioned single-wing formation seem almost like a relic of the days when players drop-kicked field goals. But a lot of spectators have been grumping about the trend. With the T-attack, they complain, football has become a game of "Button, button, who's got the button?" It takes a good grandstand man to tell...
...taught himself to be the best bunter in the business. As a shortstop, he had none of the easy, fluid grace of the Cardinals' Marty Marion, nor the rifle arm of the Red Sox's Vern Stephens. But Rizzuto learned to scoot around his short-field like a hopped-up water bug, to make throws from any position short of standing on his head. Within five years after Stengel's blunt advice, the "Scooter" had nailed down the shortstop job with the New York Yankees...
...Bantam Ben Hogan over the field, for the Professional Golfers' Association award as "Golfer of the Year...
...than providing a standard set of examinations to be given on the same day, at the same clock hour, all over the U.S. It was providing the colleges with the first fair and sure method they had ever had for selecting their future students. It also put the whole field of secondary education on its mettle by providing a set of standards for all schools to follow...
...spending a fourth of their time in the social sciences and humanities-not to learn a mass of facts about these subjects, but to understand the disciplines behind them. While learning to solve problems in engineering, they began to learn how writers, economists, and historians solved problems in other fields. "The teacher," said Doherty, "becomes a thinking-coach . . . but the student must do the thinking . . . He soon finds he is using his head the same way regardless of the field...