Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...certificates, which will take the place of pre-war Harvard H's, will be awarded for intercollegiate competition in baseball, basketball, crew, cross country, football, lacrosse, soccer, tennis, and track. Absent from the list are the swimming, wrestling, golf, fencing, and hockey teams, which have not engaged in any form of intercollegiate competition since formal athletics were discontinued in the spring...
...movie theaters kept open; they held high priority in air-raid repair. A flower show in the capital featured half a million tulips. The Nazi Party stepped up weekend sports; Berliners had a choice of boating on the Wannsee, trotting races at Mariendorf, steeplechasing at Karlshorst, football, tennis and hockey matches. The radio urged: "The human body and soul need the stimulating reactions of the laughing muscles. He who cannot laugh lives in vain...
...regional in outlook and "regionalist art fails because it stresses the superficial at the expense ... of the universal"; 2) Canadians are strong Puritans and "Puritanism . . . dis-believes in the importance of art"; 3) Canadians live a disguised form of the frontier life where art plays second fiddle to the hockey game and whiskey bottle; 4) for all of Canada's Dominion status, the average Canadian is still colonial-minded - "an unwholesome state of mind in which great art is most unlikely to emerge...
...began when he was 13. At 16 he was a star player on the famed Meadow Brook Club's championship team. He also boxed and swam, played tennis, hockey, football and golf. At St. Paul's School he was president of his class. He left school at 17 to join World War I's famed Lafayette Escadrille. He won the Croix de Guerre, was shot down and captured, escaped by jumping from a moving train, walked for eight nights till he reached Switzerland...
...indeed. Chief Clem, the only chief in the Navy who pronounces "Idea" & "Idear," shares with Mickey Cochrane of Detroit Tiger baseball came the distinction of being one of the two graduates of Boston University to have won 12 letters. Chief Clem was left halfback in football right wing in hockey, fancy diving ace of the swimming team, and a tennis star winning three letters in each of these four sports. A native Bostonian, he holds B.S. in education and an E.D.M. (master degree in physical education), both from...