Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the sportier introductions was the low-hung Six Cylinder Jordan (green finish with khaki top). Chevrolet had a-"Sport Cabriolet" which is a coupé of roadster type: an enclosed front compartment with a rumble seat in back. The Chevrolet line is now finished in grey and uses disc wheels. Chevrolet advertising spoke of "the most outstanding automotive success in recent years." For other cars, other merits were advertised...
Like music over the water came the sound of their splashing to the ears, of William Wrigley Jr. i It was an inspiration, no less-this swimming race. He was advertising his enormous real estate development at Catalina. He was showing himself to be a patron of sport. He was making a bow to the sex, for he had stipulated that if a man won the race (this channel has never been swum) he would get $25,000 and the first woman to finish would get $15,000, but that if a woman won she would...
Football, like any other collegiate sport, is and should be if it is not, of, by, and for the undergraduate. President Lowell pointed this out very clearly in his report. It is a point worth making and repeating over and over again, for losing sight of it is responsible for the troubles which beset intercollegiate football today. Football has become too much the public's business, too little the undergraduate's interest. It is hardly too much to say that the recent break between Princeton and Harvard was treated in the press as a diplomatic break between the United States...
...part of the American public. An interest in athletics is natural and desirable but when commercialized to the present extent it loses something fundamental. Cities and towns maintain representative athletic teams for advertising purposes, spectators attend to wager on the outcome and players play for material gain. Sport has ceased to be sport; it has become an industry, with managers, capitalists, publicity agents, official publications and all the other features of any big business enterprise...
President W. H. P. Faunce of Brown University has just made his annual report to the Brown Corporation and has announced Brown's purpose of embracing a similar sport policy. Games for all and the extension of curriculum ideals to athletics are the keynotes of the report. All Brown men, alumni and undergraduates alike, want a more substantial foundation for outdoor sports, the sports which help to educate, and only those. They believe that all education whether in the classroom or on the athletic field should be dominated by "one great ideal, subjected to the same control, held...