Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great importance which it is expected will come to the attention of the Committee this evening is the proposed trip of the squash team to the Intercollegiate Tournament at Buffalo on February 21, 22, and 23. Permission for this trip was originally refused on the ground that minor sport teams should not be allowed to make such extended trips. Since that time, however, news of the fact that Yale's squash team has been given permission to compete in the tournament has reached the University. This, coupled with the fact that there is a strong feeling among undergraduates that...
...general election. France has placed all radio under the censorship of the police. Smoking has been prohibited in Mecca, the Holy City of the Moslems. In Russia the soviet commissar of health has issued an edict against kissing. Not only is the usual form of this indoor sport forbidden, the kissing of ladies' hands by men is also taboo. The practice is doubly accursed, being both unhygienic and bourgeois. Handshaking, too, has been prohibited in many departments...
...Anyone who isn't keen to help build the Cathedral after seeing and hearing Bishop Manning talk about it doesn't know a good sport when he sees one .... The thing that I am afraid of is that somebody will think he is doing God Almighty a favor by contributing to the Cathedral...
...wear an obviously different style of dress every few weeks is a conspicuous way of showing that they can afford to waste money. There are other signs with which we are also familiar. No English public school can now compete with some American Universities in their enthusiasm for sport, and they are only following our English lead when they discover moral reasons for sacrificing the upper-class youth of the country to the unit of athletics. Most significant of all, however, is the growth among a small section in some Universities of a leisured attitude to learning. Business America still...
...laps from home Nurmi sprinted, left a gap of 5 yards, widened it to 10, to 15. Gamely Ritola hung on, his face twisted like a mask of torture, but this time Nurmi did not turn to look. Running like a sprinter who, throughout an afternoon's field sport, has traveled no more than 100 yards, Nurmi broke the tape, broke also, by 9 2/5 seconds, a world's record. (Time...