Word: rugger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They got to saying "rather" and "actually" and succumbed to the English habit of afternoon tea-though without altering their G.I. dinner time, so that 5:30 dinner followed 4 o'clock tea with indecent and indigestible haste. They went punting on the Cam, played rugger with Cantabrigians (and lost), American football (and won), debated in the Cambridge Union Society and acted in the Amateur Dramatic Club...
...Alexander Fleming was born (1881) in Darvel, in Ayrshire, the son of a farmer. He went to St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, largely because it won the Rugger cup and had had a championship swimming team the year before. (Dr. Fleming still loves to swim. His other hobby is rifle shooting.) When he graduated in 1908, he took honors in physiology, pharmacology, medicine, pathology, forensic medicine and hygiene, received the University Gold Medal...
Sport. Americans "think of football in terms of "tactics and skill more than, as we do in the case of rugger at any rate, in terms of sweat and endurance. As with football, so with dancing; they regard it from the angle of technique...
...their strange language, which is Semitic dashed with the flavors of Europe, they whispered in their cafés while the outrageous Englishmen bounded up & down the narrow, stepped streets of Valletta, sweated at rugger, cricket, swam in the surf. Though there was never any outburst (the warm, damp sirocco was too enervating and the Maltese were too polite), neither did there burn in Britain's amber jewel any flame of devotion to the King. Not even when, in 1921, his Majesty granted self rule (within limits). The Governors and the governed lived in separate worlds, while many...
Last fortnight 66,000 Britons went to Wembley Stadium in suburban London to see England play Scotland at Rugger. The crowd gave a great cheer at the entrance of the Russian military mission to Britain. Also present was King Peter of Yugoslavia, now an Oxford student...