Word: sport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...probably significant," writes G. F. Lamb in The Happiest Days, "that the best-known statement on English education is connected with Sport. Ask any person you meet in the street where the Battle of Waterloo was won, and if the word 'playing-fields' is not out of his mouth before the question is finished you may be sure that he is of foreign extraction. The familiar Wellington epigram has egged on thousands of prefects to beat their juniors for not playing in or supporting House cricket and football matches; it has encouraged hundreds of thousands of spectators...
...cold forest, only to go home at dawn-sniffling and hungry-without once having heard the pop of a cork. Since 1954, only 268 Auerhahne have been shot in the West German woods. Of these, 90 were shot down by U.S. armed forces personnel, who have taken to the sport with so much enthusiasm that they have already organized 100 hunting parties for the 1961 season that opened last week...
...Crimson sports fans will have a chance to see some very top performances this year. Highlighting the Harvard season the lightweight crew and the lacrosse team, each one of the teams in its sport in the nation. The lightweights are undefeated races over the past three years, and the lacrosse squad has national recognition with an astounding 100-point scoring performance in its first six games, all victories...
...then there is Radcliffe. But what does Radcliffe have to do the American and National League baseball champions? Sport...
...focus on business instead of sport was bad enough, but worse was the threat to baseball's sacred records. Obviously, eight additional games will not affect some marks; most pitching records (games won and lost, strikeouts, walks, and shutouts) have not been approached in years, anyway. And Jim Perry of the Indians may take advantage of one or two more starts to set a new record for yielding home runs, but he probably would have made gopher ball history, regardless...