Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tennis, like most other outdoor activities, was hard hit by the early weekend rains, and Saturday's double-feature matches, in which the Varsity was to face the Belmont Tennis Club and the Jayvees were to challenge Bowdoin College, were cancelled...
Everything had a picture-postcard look: the walled city of Quebec, brooding on its cliff above the St. Lawrence; the Maxfield Parrish mountains of the Gaspe; storybook hamlets, and fishing fleets lying like a school of minnows in the bay. There were oxcarts and outdoor ovens, pea soup and acres of cod drying in the sun. And there was Montreal, second biggest French city in the world, with the biggest black market in Canada...
...French Canadians, over one-third of Canada's population, can afford to take the long view. The best protection for their culture lies in something no tourist can miss-the swarms of children that play about the old outdoor ovens and the creaking, great-winged windmills. Quebec's birthrate, which has long outstripped the rest of Canada's, may some day make the French Canadians the majority in the Dominion. The habitant calls it the "victory in the cradle." Time, and the long winter nights, are on French Canada's side...
...Donlevy, Britain's Patricia Roc). Gnome-faced Hoagy Carmichael wanders lazily through the busy plot, picking his mandolin and singing four catchy, near-frontier ballads that he composed for the occasion. Technicolor works pure magic with the ires, the fist fights, trie Redmen, the pretty girls, the superb outdoor scenery...
...Sakamoto is pointing for the 1948 Olympics. Among the members of his postwar club, again a strong contender for the A.A.U. outdoor meet in San Diego next month, are: ex-Navy man Smith, who last week beat Johnny Weismuller's U.S. 100-meter long course record with a 57.7; Ralph Wright, ex-marine who bettered the Olympic 200-meter long course breast stroke mark with a 2:42.3; and Harry Holiday, ex-Michigan star, who beat the U.S. 300-meter individual medley record with...