Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the program which has been in force during the summer all undergraduates, unless specifically excused, have been expected to exercise four times each week. At least two of these periods have been, by requirement, conditioning classes, unless the student participates in House sports, Mil Sci drill, or an organized team sport...
This week the U.S. Army launched its first football offensive. In Los Angeles, where Army officials have limited sport crowds to 5,000 since Pearl Harbor, 55,000 football fans were permitted to gather in the Memorial Coliseum to watch an All-Army team tackle the Washington Redskins, the first of eight games with big-league professional outfits. The goal: $1,000,000 for Army Relief...
...walls are vending machines loaded with cokes and milk, candy, cookies, cigarets. The 1942 workers play harder and in healthier places than pool rooms. They do much of their playing at the plant: there are softball fields, basketball courts and bowling alleys (bowling is a favorite 1942 workers' sport). There are special movies for those on swing shifts, special nightclub parties starting in the cool of the morning. For workers who want them, there are welfare services: group and hospital insurance, medical attention; in at least one California plant, profits from the concessions pay the hire of a minister...
...faculty of first-desk Boston Symphony players, but when they play they are on their own. Three hours a day, six days a week, with a few evening hours thrown in, they rehearse under the maestro himself, a genial martinet in an open-neck shirt, slacks and sport shoes, who expects miracles and often gets them...
Bambi has an all-animal cast, but man is present by implication. Disney's indictment of men who kill animals for sport is so effective that U.S. sportsmen who have seen the picture are gunning for him. They feel that Disney is undoing their lifework of conserving wild animals for future open seasons. After Bambi they may have a hard time convincing Disneyacs...