Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These preflight schools, organized two months ago to make U.S. naval aviators the world's toughest fighters, have attracted 600 of the country's ablest athletic coaches and have launched the most intensive three-month sport program ever undertaken in the U.S. In their curriculum, devised and supervised by onetime Annapolis Football Coach Tom Hamilton, are ten compulsory sports: football, basketball, soccer, wrestling, boxing, tumbling, swimming, track, hand-to-hand, engineering (which means ditch-digging, wood-chopping and other manual labor...
...Each sport has its relevance to war: the body contact of boxing and football, the sustained muscular strain of wrestling, the teamwork of basketball and soccer, the know-how of tumbling, the muscle-building of labor. But the sports considered most valuable for Navy fledglings are swimming, track and hand-to-hand...
Because of the tremendously increased effort that this larger issue will involve, the board is attempting to divide the work more successfully than has been done in the past. Each candidate will cover a House, sport, and organization...
Before the German invasion, Shostakovich lived in a five-room Leningrad apartment filled with his family (wife, two children, mother, sister and sister's son) and piles of scores, books on music and sport. An enthusiastic soccer fan, Shostakovich is a regular correspondent of the chief Russian sports paper, Red Sport. Says...
When the A.E.F. began arriving Down Under, sports-loving Australians immediately began seeking to match their athletes against soldiers from overseas. But there seemed to be almost no sport common to both countries. Australians play cricket in the summer and football in the winter -rugby or soccer in New South Wales and Queensland, Australian football in other states...