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Word: sportingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...committee was also formed to investigate the polo situation. It is felt that in view of the polo team's success last year and of the increasing interest in the game, recognition should be given the players and polo should be placed on a minor sport basis. The committee appointed to consider this question was composed of J. N. Watters '26, chairman, and C. G. T. Lundell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHEEK WILL HEAD STUDENT COUNCIL | 10/6/1925 | See Source »

...Sport like Education has become the privilege of proletarians, as it was once of the bourgeoisie and the artistocracy. Rowing has attained great popularity for both sexes. The observant traveler is apt to be particularly struck by young Amazonian working girls, who slather up and down the Moscow River, with nothing on but a red kerchief, a rowing shirt, and a pair of blue trunks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Ruhl's Report | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

...with and collect birds' eggs, turtles, lizards, bugs, beetles and even scorpions. He saw sharks and devilfish, albatrosses and penguins, sea lions and octopuses. He helped dig buried treasure and played pirate on desert islands at the Equator. His mother was with him but she is a great sport and didn't "worry." She caught even bigger fish than he did. She helped him write this book, which won't make any one jealous, because he tells it all very calmly, like a scientist, and doesn't rub it in how lucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bibliophile* | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

...National Women's Tennis Champion Helen Wills, last week, when newspaper men panted up to ejaculate and interrogate about her election to Phi Beta Kappa. In red blazer, white skirt, her hair in a bun, she was about to play a set or two of the sport she dominates and she bounced her ball impatiently during the rigmarole of questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: High-B | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

...National Women's Tennis Champion Helen Wills, last week, when newspaper men panted up to ejaculate and interrogate about her election to Phi Beta Kappa. In red blazer, white skirt, her hair in a bun, she was about to play a set or two of the sport she dominates and she bounced her ball impatiently during the rigmarole of questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: High-B | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

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