Word: realm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course this money does not go to the player, but it might just as well," he continued, "for commercialization presents all the evils of professionalism. This same situation holds in the realm of tennis. The game has been commercialized to the point where all the faults of professionalism are extant in its present make-up, and many controversies result. Therefore, if we are to have this commercialization of all sports, why not pay the individual player? After all, he is the one who does the work. I am a staunch supporter of athletes such as Red Grange, who turn professional...
...reprimand at the heads of the prosecuting attorneys for ever having taken the case to court (TIME, Dec. 7). The World spoke of "the larger interests" of the attorneys' client (the family of Leonard Kip Rhinelander, of Manhattan); maintained that the "realities of the affair lay in a realm of feeling of which the actors themselves were hardly aware"; protested that since the attorneys were not emotionally involved they should have had the "sympathetic wisdom and practical judgment" to settle the case out of court, by means, perhaps, of a "Dutch uncle" talk; and accused the attorneys of cherishing...
...since the light of Venus possessed the power to slay. If the last item implies the existence of what we should call superstition among the Mayas, their calendar, as recently explained and harmonized by Herbert J. Spinden of Harvard, is full proof of their sophistication in at least one realm of science. Dr. Spinden's researches, first announced by the Peabody Museum two years ago and new completed, seem to us quite as romantic as any ever undertaken by an archaeologist. --The Nation...
From the University of Chicago comes a Committee report which delves into the mysterious realm of students' time. With something of a shock the investigators discovered that the mythical average student spent but 36 hours a week at his studies, devoted little time to serious reading and far too much to outside activities...
...long years he had spent serving the British Crown in the tropics, was now grown sallow and his forehead showed a network of tiny lines. Though Edward VII had knighted him, he was now about to commit the last act in a conspiracy of high treason against the realm of George...