Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week RCA-NBC television station W2XBS, after a not-too-impressive month of scheduled telecasting of variety, short plays, films and sport to the 900-odd sets in its 50-mile radius, announced that Referee Donovan's kindly wash was coming true. Its engineers had proved, in telecasting the six-day bike race at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, that television could be transmitted over ordinary telephone wire. Engineers had considered coaxial cable, a copper wire threaded through separators inside a copper tube, the only practical ground conductor for the complex television signal. Since coaxial cable costs...
...feeble that it has to be supported by colege football, ten years its junior. Once considered attractive enough to lure crowds of 15,000 to 20,000, college base-)all now attracts only 3,000 or 4,000 specators to its big games. Why this hoary U. S. sport has been snubbed by undergraduates and alumni, no two college men gree. But baseball experts have not ignored college baseball. In its rosters major-league scouts have found many a man for their clubs' lineups...
...opening wedge towards better facilities for the Rifle Team, the Student Council, in collaboration with the Undergraduate Athletic Committee, has recommended to the Committee on Regulation of Athletic Sports that Riflery be recognized as a minor sport by the Athletic Association...
...present time the team has very limited time for practice in the basement of Memorial Hall. It is hoped that if Riflery is recognized as a minor sport, the H. A. A. will arrange with the Department of Naval Science for more extensive practice time and better equipment...
...also hoped that there will be far more extensive coaching facilities. These will enable the Rifle Team to make greater progress and possibly letters may be given within a few years by the H. A. A. Thus Riflery will become a fully authorized minor sport with far larger membership and equipment...