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Word: hockey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college boys, at McGill University around 1875, who first made hockey a game-something with rules and a bit of science about it. The game has come a long way since then, and not always uphill. Last week in New Haven, 1,200 spectators watched a game called ice hockey, and played by college boys, that looked more like assault & battery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mayhem on Ice | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...With a riot in the making, Coach Chase refused to continue! the game. It took 26 stitches to close a wound in Abbott's cheek. Said Chase: "If it had been on a street corner, it would have been criminal." In collegiate circles these days, it was just hockey, new style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mayhem on Ice | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...night last week, Alberta's Attorney General Lucien Maynard lugged a portable radio into the Legislative Assembly at Edmonton. With one ear he followed the debate, with the other listened to a hockey game in Calgary. A conscientious chap, he kept fellow legislators informed of the score by hand signals. Maynard's enthusiasm was something every Canadian could understand. In Canada, hockey is the national game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Life on the Ice | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

This week some 6,000,000 Canadians (almost half the Dominion's 12,582,000 population) will listen to broadcasts of the Stanley Cup- playoffs, the World Series of professional ice hockey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Life on the Ice | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...casual athlete will find scores of his ilk in the House. As of this week, only one major team has not finished first in intramural standings since last spring, with baseball, softball, crew, football, hockey, and two squash teams winding up on top of the standings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Men Have Fun . . . | 3/26/1948 | See Source »

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