Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tired of TIME'S blathering, daddling stupid, idiotic, fatheaded fumbles. "Washington State's Golden Bears!" What pansy-eyed window-dresser writes your so-called sport news? Everyone, even TIME, should know that California's teams for 40 years have been known as the Golden Bears. California, not Washington, is famous for the discovery of gold...
They have more scandal on the top of their tongue than the famous Barber's cat, and for sport they are worse than a lot of chicken doctors. So if ever I should be on a jury there are three parties I would never believe under oath, ministers, policemen and D.D.S...
...course of our ten years of prohibition the Government and Parliament have utterly failed, in my opinion, to devise means for efficient enforcement. . . . The majority of our citizens apparently refuse to support prohibition and regard it as a sport to commit offenses. . . . The country is flooded with liquor. ... It is time for our dreaming Prohibitionists to face this fiasco and awake...
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Football is not the simple sport that it used to be. An intersectional game today involves special trains, hide-outs for pre-game rest, newspaper reporters and front page publicity. A too well traveled team smacks highly of advertising and of gate receipts. But like all good things, there is safety in moderation. The fanfare and beating of drums in Ann Arbor today reflects the spirit-of youth; out for the conquest of football foes and the winning of new friends...