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Word: sportingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-all his own if he wants it. Moreover, His Exalted Highness is considered by India's princely spendthrifts a miser who is inordinately stingy with elephants for State durbars and who rides around in an old touring car while other less prosperous maharajas sport dozens of custom-built limousines. Thus he has amassed a fortune which includes treasure houses filled with gold, jewels, ivory carvings, antiques, not to mention a railroad or so, a few mines, stocks & bonds. He has often been called the world's richest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Eastern Friends | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Senator Mihai's star birthday present was an $18,000 Mercedes-Benz sport car capable of 115 m.p.h. King Carol also gave Mihai's girl friend a decoration. The Order of Cultural Merit went to Helen Malxa, attractive and always well-chaperoned daughter of one of Rumania's richest industrialists. Anxious to damp scandal, Court functionaries maintained last week that the "platonic summer romance" of Mihai and Helen is now over. A few months ago they claimed that "His Royal Highness and Miss Malxa have never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Bessarabia and Breakfast | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

When the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports meets today, it will act upon the petition of the rifle club to be made a Minor sport and upon two recommendations of the Undergraduate Athletic Council dealing with the cross country team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Acts Today on Athletic Recommendations | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Having received provisional approval (to the extent of receiving letter awards) for a Minor sport status from the Student Council and the Undergraduate Athletic Council, the rifle club today concludes its five year fight for recognition as its case goes before the Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Acts Today on Athletic Recommendations | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Eugene S. Buder '38, 1L, who was scheduled to make a bicycle dash to Princeton to win a bet, beginning at 12:01 this morning, last night called his trip off after hearing of Wheeler's death. "I intended to do it as a sporting venture," he said, "and now all the sport has gone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Student Killed Bicycling Way to Game | 11/3/1939 | See Source »

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