Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stearman Company is now capitalized at $600,000 and is producing one of the most refined commercial biplanes on the market. This ship is flown by the air lines, by the government and is very popular with people of wealth who take up aviation as a sport...
...major sport, too, is still untouched by this new class spirit. Track continues to attract its ten thousands, perhaps to a great extent by means of the ubiquitous intramural handicap meets. With a fertile field of enthusiasts already engaged in this sport, there is no reason why the coming spring should not carry the individualism of the handicap meet and medal through to its logical conclusion of team development. The throng of not-quite-first-stringers that are carried along semi-officially through the season is particularly large in this sport, which alone among the five major athletic activities offers...
...club at present numbers 45 members, about half of that membership participating in active work on the range. Shortly after the Christmas recess, there will be a meeting of the club at which time further plans for the season's activities will be set forth. The award of minor sport letters to the club team last year by the Athletic Association has created more interest in the team...
Check in bank, Senator Couzens returned to his favorite sport, Mellon-baiting. Said he: "This is a concrete piece of evidence of mismanagement of the Bureau of Internal Revenue under the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Hamilton's time...
...then a clubman much like his son at present, that the older Anthony visited Dr. Floyd Tomkins, a Philadelphia divine, and said "I have seen the Great Light. . . ." He was given a Bible class of three men. Soon he inaugurated his own movement, designed to unite the ideas of Sport and of God. In 1912 he held a formal meeting at his Philadelphia house to organize formally "Athletic Christianity," so that any Bible class in the country could become a Drexel Biddle Bible Class and utilize his scheme for keeping young persons near to the churches...