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Word: sportingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swoop last week war blacked out three of California's brightest sport attractions: Pasadena's Rose Bowl football classic, San Francisco's East-West all-star game and the opening of Santa Anita, world's richest horse-race meeting. While California businessmen mourned the loss of a possible $20,000,000, the citizens of New Orleans cheered and chortled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Louisiana's Big Week | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

...fact, jiu-jitsu is the only sport that teaches the real art of self-defense," said Gardiner. "Boxing and wrestling have degenerated into games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Work of Judo Club To Continue Rest of Year | 12/18/1941 | See Source »

Notably awkward finesse: Motoring Grable home from a Manhattan nightclub after a hard day's grilling at police head quarters, Sport Mature, asked what he intends to do after seeing her home, says he's going swimming. Always goes swimming about that time of the morning at a luxurious indoor pool. Grable, of course, joins him, so that the palpitating pair, without the excuse of California sun or Caribbean climate, can exhibit their torsos to the audience before picking up the plot they left behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 15, 1941 | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

...Committee on the Regulation of Athletics, however, will lead the way with a special meeting tonight to discuss possible changes in the winter and spring sport schedules, and other governing boards including the Corporation, headed by President Conant, will also early this week consider emergency policy measures for the College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY DELAYS IMMEDIATE ACTION AS AMERICAS PREPARE TO FIGHT AXIS | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...refute further misconceptions he declares that Igorots, and other hunters collect heads for the same reason boys collect goal-posts--for the sport...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANTHROPOLOGIST CLAIMS WILD MEN CIVILIZED AS STUDENTS | 12/5/1941 | See Source »

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