Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edward of Wales did much to forestall that. The first gesture was his report on the unemployment situation, which he denounced in heartfelt fashion as "A ghastly mess! Worse than I would ever have believed!" His second gesture was to sell his whole string of horses, renounce the Royal sport of foxhunting, and settle down to the business of the Crown...
...winter. The hockey is swift, it is rugged, it is good, and yet--the hockey we are playing today is not so productive, not so interesting to watch, not so exciting to play, as it should be.... The over-defensive tactics applied by all college teams is giving the sport a passive interpretation...
...first Freshman Inter-Dormitory swimming match ever held in the history of Harvard sport was staged yesterday at the Big Tree Pool as the second division of the University meets and was attended with great success. After a series of extremely close events, Standish and Smith Halls ended with 23 points apiece; first place was awarded to the former, however, on the strength of its victory in the relay race. There will now be a brief cessation of activities to allow yesterday's first-year men and Monday's fraternity swimmers to rest up for the open University division, which...
Meanwhile Helen has become Walden's most distinguished pupil. A smooth-haired, frank-faced girl, she likes "any outdoor sport and taking care of babies." She enjoys "most any type book, particularly college stories." She also says: "I would like to be a high school teacher when I have completed high school and college...
...once Pilot Burgin, confident in the staunchness of aircraft, took out an Arrow sport plane. She would not rise properly, bucked a ground bump, flipped forward and over onto her back, with trifling damage...