Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bingham declared that it is un-sportsmanlike to allow political, religious and racial situations to interfere with the conduct of athletics. We agree with him fully; that is why we engaged ourselves in this fight to keep our athletes away from the German shores. "Politics belong in sports," says Bruno Malitz, and we shudder at the thought. We are afraid that should our athletes set foot on Nazi land they will be contaminated by the doctrines which have set books on fire and inspired racial and religious riots. We don't want them to come home to sow the principles...
...Introducing Cambridge" the authors who publish their labors in the "Advocate" show an admirable aptitude in marshalling figures and in putting them where they belong. Their article is a series of pointed questions put to fairly representative groups of Harvard men and of Cambridge tradespeople, with tabulations of the answers, explanations, and comments. It is all in the style of surveys by "Fortune". But after drawing up their battle-lines these generals forget to declare...
...pull the trigger. I signed to prevent him from committing suicide and because I could not bear the scandal of having a man found shot dead in my office!" Why did the jewel expert M. Emile Farault appraise as genuine jewels some synthetic emeralds said by Stavisky to belong to a company headed by the Emperor of Ethiopia and thus enable them to be pawned at a fabulous profit by Stavisky? "I had no doubt of their value!" swore Defendant Farault last week. "Ah, no! I never had any river pebbles in my hands!" Why did 75-year-old retired...
Manhattan was not all lights for the Vagabond. The old fellow--as his friends well know--really doesn't belong with Father Knickerbocker's distortions of a rip roaring time; at least not after a night or so of it. So what did the whimsy Vagabond do but up and away with his little brother...
...Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians. . . . Germany's political policy within or without its borders has no bearing on the subject. [The American Olympic Committee] will never allow our athletes to be made martyrs to a cause not their own. . . ." He said he planned a 16-page booklet containing "enough information to blow those who figure that Americans should not compete in the Berlin Olympic Games right out of the water...