Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Raskob is a short, well-built man of gentle, clean-cut countenance. His favorite sport is sailing. His business responsibilities do not seem to burden him. In accepting his post he said: "I am not a politician and have never been affiliated with any party. . . . This undoubtedly has been the position of many citizens in all walks of life. . . . There come times in the life of a nation when men not in politics feel called upon to take an active instead of a passive interest in government. My belief that such a time is at hand accounts for my willingness...
Well, I see by your letter page that Life also has a letter page. So I buy a copy of Life and see that it now has a political department, a sport and radio column. And then, that sap, Will Rogers, bigger than any of TIME'S saps, is writing for Life...
...natives carrying along the white, beautiful roads on Sunday morning contain, sometimes, cocks. . . . And, what about it? There is no doubt that you will find the same flask of bitter liquor, the knife, volleys of cheers and curses, and many other things in many another American sport. Cockfighting is one of their sports and they will stick to it, same as Americans stick to theirs...
...tremendous increase in news of crime and sport events during the past 25 years has made necessary the cutting down of space given to the naturally increasing number of real news items...
...intellectual" as a term of reproach; and no smart, uneducated worldling will sneer at the "academic" futility of the university man. But in order that the Harvard-Yale idea may have its full effect in England there must be visible rewards for prowess in the new forms of sport. Blues and half-Blues must be awarded. We suggest (since the head is here chiefly concerned) a blue tassel to the mortar-board, and a blue-and-white tassel for a half Blue. If Oxford dallows women to compete, the Blue will naturally be in the stockings. The design...