Word: sported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Literary feuding, a sport regrettably neglected of late, has a long and splendidly dishonorable history, one of whose darker chapters. concerns Sam Johnson. James Boswell. and a dour magistrate, Sir John Hawkins...
Thirty-three straight losses have mellowed Portfolio's outlook. "Harvard has no sport like it," chortled The Folio, a philosophy major, "for in the defeat rests final victory. What I'm trying to tell you, it's fun to lose...
Rhesus J. Portfolio has been responsible for the Golden Renascence of the game at Harvard. "I first came to the sport," Portfolio recalls, "while reading Ecclesiastes with President Eliot. I don't think he fully appreciated my ideas, but it struck me right off as the final solution to our athletics problems. It builds character, you know...
Style, indeed, is not one of the book's strong points. Aten and the British flyers seem to have viewed the early parts of the South Russian campaign as some kind of deadly sport- tensely exciting, to be sure, but still a game. At any rate, the language of the first half of the book makes them all sound more like characters in a hopped-up battle between the cowboys and Indians. The enemy "is coming down the Volga with a flotilla of gunboats." Aten's commander announces at one point, "We'll load up with twenty-pound bombs...
...Sports news played a very large part in the CRIMSON of the Gay '90's. Detailed accounts of the daily football practice were invariably given top billing, and minor jugglings in the JV crew boatings rated detailed accounts. There was a lot of talk, even in the paper, about over-emphasis of athletics, but even so, the CRIMSON published a series in 1893 giving a recapitulation of Harvard's encounter with Yale in every major sport for the past five years...