Word: badminton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although McGill last year was rated one of the hottest squash teams in Canada, the Varsity scored an 8 to 1 win when they visited Montreal one weekend before Christmas. Before leaving they also whipped the University of Toronto and the Montreal Badminton and Squash Club for good measure...
Plans for badminton intramural took a new turn yesterday when 53 members of the freshman class signed up to participate in the contests later this month. Should all 53 play, the freshman will earn 365 points toward the inter-class all sports trophy under the new Athletic Association intramural point system...
Only similar organization on the part of the other classes can prevent a clear walk away in badminton and possibly the entire intramural race by the freshman. "The action is perfectly legal," Nina Emerson '50, AA vice-president said yesterday. "We wanted greater participation by the student body and we are getting...
When his airplane landed at Moscow's Vnukovo airport, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Walter Bedell Smith was pale and tired. His limping but cheerful wife (she had strained a muscle playing badminton) was there to greet him, and so was a cluster of Western diplomats, generals, newsmen. But no Russians. Said Bedell Smith: "Fine weather you're having here...
...Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, briefly interrupting his tour of war-riven Kashmir, treated himself to a game of badminton doubles, paired with Defense Minister Sardar Baldev Singh, treated the world to a pleasant scene of dignified concentration and earnest endeavor...