Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parties. Critics of the proposed enlargement will find in the enclosure of the open end of the Stadium no alarming stimulus to huger crowds and to overemphasis of football beyond its proper sphere. There will be a slight gain in seating capacity to satisfy the advocates of progress along sport lines, and at all events the plan will insure a certain permanence of the status of the Stadium infinitely preferable to the old haphazard system of temporary stands...
Other and less significant changes include full-page cuts for the minor sport articles--instead of cartoons; total absence of humorous drawings and of langurous ladies--the latter an excellent omission; and brief articles on "miscellaneous activities', instead of mere lists of participants. A more unfortunate alteration--cheapening but lucrative--is the placing of all the scholarship records of the class in a submerged position among the advertisements...
Candidate Hoover, the Administration's busy but not supremely happy Beaver Man, waded into a trout-stream in Pennsylvania and for three days indulged pensively in the Sport of Presidents. He used the subtle, sporting fly, however, instead of the homely, almost infallible worm...
Candidate Lowden, the determined Farmers' Friend, returned to Chicago after visiting Washington and Manhattan, and indulged in the sport of candidates. He enunciated an Issue. He paced the floor of his office, shook his silvery poll, pounded his desk, even smote listening newsgatherers on thigh and chest to publish his point...
With Oosterbaan on base, Weintraub unleashed a mighty drive into left field which gave Michigan its first major sport victory over a Harvard team and evened the baseball series between the two aggregations this spring...