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Word: sportingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peabody, Finegan, and MacKinney, along with the captains of each major and minor sport, will constitute the new Varsity Club House Committee with duties roughly similar to those of the present Undergraduate Athletic Council. This represents an extension of the influence and functions of the Varsity Club, and it is a move calculated to increase the prestige of the Club. There is no indication, however, that the Undergraduate Athletic Council will be abolished immediately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "H" Men Select New Executive Committee | 5/15/1941 | See Source »

Each Sunday morning, to more than a third of Britain's eleven million homes, goes a juicy dish of the week's doings in divorce, scandal, abduction, assault, murder and sport. It is the News of the World, world's largest paper (circulation: over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tribute to a Scandalmonger | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

...shortage of aluminum for shoes, but horse racing should boom this summer. Thoroughbreds are not likely to be drafted. Most trainers are too old and jockeys too small to serve in the Army. The five-day week will encourage workers with bulging pay envelopes to get acquainted with the "sport of kings." Last week at New York's Jamaica race track, in suburban Long Island, fans set a world's record for pari-mutuel bets. In the first seven days of its spring meeting, $5,786,152 was wagered-an average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Derby Is Coming | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...entertainment to be provided all next summer at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, No. 1 U.S. indoor sport arena: public dancing (two big-name dance bands every night), and beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: First Foursome | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

There will always be a very special place in my heart for Nick's Restaurant in New York because it's an unpretentious little sport with a mellow atmosphere not at all characteristic of the more sophisticated clubs in the Big City, but what counts, of course, is the jazz...

Author: By Charies Miller, | Title: SWING | 4/18/1941 | See Source »

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