Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...players and prospects had fairly stable elements: children, old men (as ballplayers go), 4-Fs, a few discharged war veterans, a few Latin Americans, But there was also the bogey of a draft of 4-Fs into essential industries. By midsummer the national pastime might be almost exclusively a sport for the young and the old. Dodger President Branch Rickey offered a plan: let all the clubs limit their reserve lists of players to an agreed figure and pool the surplus, to be drawn on whenever any club needed a replacement...
Imphal is the capital of the little state of Manipur. It lies in a swampy valley, famous in agriculture for its rice and tea production, famous in sport as the place where polo was invented. Last week it threatened to become famous militarily as the place where the Allies' Burma campaign of 1943-44 came...
...proposal to revitalize the world's slowest sport was made last week by 60-year-old John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, plump Lieut. Colonel, the ist Baron Brabazon of Tara. Writing in the British journal, Chess, he proposed that the starting positions of the king and queen be switched. "Away with all this opening undergrowth that is dragging down the game," cried the Baron...
...sport tumbled in World War I. Not until the 1930s did it start rolling again, when Sonja Henie's movies made the world figure-skating conscious. Roller enthusiasts perfected the same 41 basic school figures which constitute ice skating's International Style. By 1942, the U.S. had 4,000 rinks, 10 million skaters...
Author Traub predicts a postwar boom because roller skating is a good boy-meets-girl sport...