Word: game
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faces what is probably the world's most sarcastic readership, which makes every hurried cliche the subject of many cruel barbs. A Saturday sporting event is easy, because the publication schedule of this journal allows for a leisurely and calculated write-up, but the occasion of a night hockey game can strain any man's regard for the English language...
...excruciatingly pleasant sensation to descend from your parch at game's end and to stride a purposefully through the crowd, flaunting press passes and demanding entrance to the locker rooms. The petty officials delegated to guard such sanctums are inevitably a suspicious, lot, and it is indeed pleasant to brush these minions aside and enter to mingle with the great. Perhaps it is such moments as these which lead droves of young men to enter that underpaid and overworked field which is journalism...
HARVARD-YALE BASEBALL GAME...
...Secretary Archer O'Reilly, Jr. '29 announced this week near-complete plans for luncheons, speakers, outings, and a banquet to feature the alumni weekend which precedes by two weeks the Harvard-Stanford football game in Palo Alto...
...Reilly explained that several factors made it impossible for both the meeting and the Stanford game to coincide. He mentioned that University personnel had to return to Cambridge a week before the reopening of College and that Ivy League practice regulations ruled out any earlier football game...