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Word: sportingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...triple its $1,000,000 budget last week to keep pace with the stumbling Chinese dollar, Council Chairman Cornell S. Franklin announced his intention of resigning. Cornell Franklin hails from Mississippi, home State of Author William Faulkner (who is married to Cornell Franklin's first wife). A good sport and a fighting gentleman, Cornell Franklin has transplanted the South-mint juleps, hunting dogs, polo, a white house with a proper portico-right to cosmopolitan Shanghai. He and his pretty second wife are tired of all this warrin' and ready for a little Reconstruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Cultivated Lands | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...track record (2 min., 1 1/5 sec.) and had added $86,650 to his earnings-to become the biggest money-maker ($437,730) in the history of horse racing. With ear splitting cheers, Seabiscuit took his place alongside Babe Ruth, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden as one of Sport's immortals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Four Hundred Grand | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...informal Jayvee sextet will also meet the Ellis taking on the regular Yale Junior Varsity. While a regular sport at Yale, Jayvee hockey is no longer official at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '43 SEXTET TO MEET YALE | 3/9/1940 | See Source »

Because Coach Bob Kiphuth's Yale swimmers handed Princeton a merciless 61 to 41 shellacking Wednesday night, followers of the tank sport in Cambridge have begun to wonder if the top heavy more wasn't caused by a remark Tiger mentor Howie Stepp was alleged to have made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELI COACH'S ANGER MAY HAVE CAUSED TIGER'S HEAVY LOSS | 3/8/1940 | See Source »

...seating capacity is more than ample for the games, since more than 1500 can be accommodated and there is a large club house as well. Sargent stated that the gift is one of the largest direct contributions ever made to any one sport...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORBES GIVES POLO EQUIPMENT TO TEAM | 3/7/1940 | See Source »

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