Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divot Sirs: I am the spectator mentioned in TIME, June 19 under Sport, "Triple Tie." Craig Wood's ball did not strike me "flush on the temple." If it had I would not be here now. It struck me on the side of my head and took a "divot" requiring three stitches to close...
With the exception of croquet, fishing is probably the only sport at which women can beat men. Last week brawny members of the world-wide brotherhood of big-game anglers doffed their visors to a member of the sisterhood: attractive, 125-lb. Mary Pouch Smithers Sears, wife of a blue-blooded Boston ichthyologist...
...Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports of Harvard University announced approval of the award of 191 innings to spring sport athletes...
Eight Seniors who have won insignia on minor sport teams for three years were awarded the Major II in Minor Colors. They are Capt. John L. Harr, Jr. '89 of the golf team, Albert N. Blanchard '39, Frank L. Downey, Jr. '39, Capt. Charles P. Hammond '39, Ralph E. Livingston '39, and Henry W. Riecken, Jr. '39 of the lacrosse team, and George M. Goodwin '39 and Donald H. Gordon '39 of the tennis team...
...unnecessary, 3) irrelevant, 4) mediocre, 5) 'more or less average." He found too "an extraordinary number of books" in which non-German personalities were stressed, Roman Generals, Russian composers, French painters. Other shortcomings : "No new peasant novels, soldier novels, glorification-of-the-Führer novels, sport novels, strength-through-joy novels, no conquest-of-unemployment novels, no good race, blood and soil novels, no go jd poetry." Long ago, Hitler told Germans to "think with their blood," but so far "blood-thinking" has produced almost no good books. Hitler himself is the best seller (Mem Kampf with...