Word: boom
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...increasing warmth has brought out all lovers of sport. Tennis, base-ball and lacrosse are on the boom, and from twelve o'clock on, the orange and black in every possible combination is seen upon the campus. All the many tennis courts have been newly laid out and marked, and are now well patronized...
...adding another form of amateur contests to our already overstocked list, its advisability seems to me extremely doubtful. Canoeing-legitimate canoeing-is one of the most delightful sports in the world, and this fact is known full well to its votaries; but if the recent "boom" in canoeing interests, observable throughout the amateur sporting world, is to have its final outcome in the degenerating of this sport into a mere form of racing contests, then the "boom" is to be deplored rather than welcomed. I am not such a fanatic as to disapprove of all racing with canoes; the Lake...
Very few men are now training for special events. After the examinations there will probably be a great boom in athletics...
...jangling bell above did boom...
...boom in bangs has reached Oshkosh...