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Making an unearthly clamor in the early hours of the morning and ceaselessly maintaining their activity throughout the day, a trained group of grass-disease specialists from the Davey School of Tree Surgery have drilled an estimated three million holes in the turf of the Yard...
...Mokotow airport on the outskirts of the city there is a high turf bank from which twice every year Marshal Pilsudski used to review his troops. His coffin was brought to that bank. Veterans of the old Pilsudski legions kept back the crowds. Four squadrons of army planes flying in formation droned back & forth...
From across the field came the heavy roll of drums, muffled under their black covers. Down the field came the glint of bayonets, the flash of many flags, and then silently over the turf came the entire army of Poland. Every general of division, every colonel of every regiment was there marching beside his regimental colors and a platoon of his own men. Set apart at the very end was Marshal Pilsudski's own cavalry regiment. Eyes snapped right, flags dipped, and the muffled drums rolled, there was no other sound. Only when the parade was over...
...Whitney fortune expresses itself in directions which are urbane, sporting, adventurous, without being reckless, and which betray efficient and complex sophistication. The interest which most Whitneys have in common is horse-racing. Theirs is the most important name on the U. S. turf but their stables are at once so well-managed and so large that a sport which is economically ruinous for people who attempt it less elaborately costs them almost nothing. Without being either dilettantes or intellectuals, Whitneys are rarely averse to making money or spending it on enterprises connected with the arts. Without being extravagant or foolhardy...
...dwell 67% of National Coursing Association members. The springy sod of Abilene's Coursing Park, best in the land, was selected after soil tests in 20 Kansas towns. Last autumn the park was planted with barley. Last fortnight it was mowed down to a bright green turf; a space 450 yd. long and 200 yd. wide was fenced by wire. Every day last week 1,000 to 5,000 spectators went to the park to watch the running of the National Coursing Association meet, top semi-annual event for breeders of racing & coursing greyhounds...