Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sports went into the Army with the athletes. Boxing and soccer, popular in 1914-18 with the Tommies, went inter-regimental. The first wartime boxing match, attended by 2,000, was held at the Aldershot training camp. All horseracing fixtures (like the Cesarewitch Stakes, on which millions are gambled annually in the Irish Sweepstakes) were canceled, but the blood stock industry, which unearthed great horses like Gainsborough and Hurry On in World War I, hoped to keep racing horses even without crowds...
...Most popular of London's oracles is Old Moore, who writes for the Sunday Dispatch. Of him, Prime Minister Neville
This attitude must be maintained, for it is America's hope. There will be a time of testing. The peace at any price stand will not always be so popular as it now is. Therefore we must convince ourselves now that no war is a holy war, that we might be leading for another great double-cross, that we might be fighting Mr. Chamberlain's instead of democracy...
Though not so cosmopolitan as the 29-year-old Stars (whose constellations are scattered all over the world), nor so popular as the eight-year-old Snipes (3,700 registered boats, mostly in the U. S.), the little Comets-fast, sensitive and priced at $300-have multiplied like rabbits in the past five years. Today the Comet Class has 1,500 registered boats, shows promise of zooming to the top of the small-boat heap before its tenth birthday...
...Sport? Good of aviation? Bunk! . . . We race for glory and for fame and for the money we can make." Thus wrote swashbuckling, 43-year-old Roscoe Turner, wax-mustached dean of U. S. speed fliers, in this month's Popular Aviation. Last week, at Cleveland, Colonel Turner (National Guard), winner of the famed Bend'x transcontinental air race (1933), won the Thompson Trophy classic, world's No. 1 round-&-round air race, for the third time. Like a speed-drunk bumblebee, his fat little, short-winged racer whizzed 30 times around a ten-mile course...