Word: reclaiming
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...policy of the Athletic Committee of economising in order to reduce the debt on the Stadium and gradually to reclaim the whole of Soldiers Field is an admirable one, but if the ground available for sport is to be increased at the cost of extinguishing many of the teams that would play on that ground, doesn't it seem that it might be better to go a little slower on the improvements, and let the growth of diversified athletic interests keep pace with the growth of available playing grounds? Nearly everyone feels that now-a-days there...
...that have influenced seriously the lives of men in this region since the earliest settlements. The deposits of boulders so common about here drove the pioneers to their towns on barren sand plains instead of on the fertile but stubborn hills and valleys. The slow, persevering labor necessary to reclaim the present farm land from boulders and forests has had an almost inestimable effect on the characters of the New Englanders...