Word: racket
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...push enough and enterprise to set him self at work there are tutors whose business it is to teach him some game and see that he plays it. He is not led away to be stuffed with botany, geology, astronomy or metaphysics, but a cricket bat, a tennis racket, a football, an car, is put into his hands and he is taught to use it. And, then, when he comes to the university he has formed a habit and continues to follow his bent. The French boy studies or plays marbles in the streets; the German boy promenades the streets...