Word: badminton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact is that an elderly graduate got poor seats for 15 years. He was just an ordinary grad. He hadn't even made the Varsity Club by managing the badminton team or any other team, so he didn't get preferment...
Submitting before the recent emphasis on squash as a means of exercise, wrestling, boxing, and fencing will be loss adequately provided for in the new building. However, a large basketball floor which can be divided into halves and a general room for badminton, volley ball, and exercising will be included in addition to the squash courts...
...word "disciple" because "one who is a disciple is already bound"-call him "Krishnaji," an honorific title roughly meaning "Sir Krishna." Last week, looking nearer 20 than 42, with a few streaks of gray in his thick black hair, Krishnaji refreshed himself at "Sarobia" chiefly by playing vigorous, bounding badminton. This week some 60 picked believers will be allowed to meet with him for a fortnight of discussions at "Sarobia." Then he goes to Ojai, Calif., near which a corporation devoted to his interests owns property, but he no longer intends to hold public meetings there...
...this doctor of medicine who was converted when an osteopath cured him of colitis, "check with the fact that minor accidents are a common cause of sterility in women. Hunting field accidents frequently lead to subsequent sterility. The spine is liable to become twisted when women ride sidesaddle. In badminton and tennis, it is very easy to produce an osteopathic lesion. A badly done swallow [U. S.: swan] dive may have similar results. Overindulgence in sports and the craze for speed are in a general way favorable to barrenness. . . . Quite frequently a patient consults an osteopath and complains of sciatica...
Reader Davidson, Britain's professional badminton champion, should know whereof he speaks...