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Word: sportingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...promisingly enough. After the overture, a lantern slide of the cover of a large picture magazine, similar to "Life," is flashed upon a screen, to the accompaniment of March of Time-type music and the pontifical voice of a news commentator. The idiocyncrasies of the Luce Press are favorite sport among the satirists this season anyhow, and so--you say to yourself, perhaps--here is musical comedy's own gay potshot at grey-eyed, balding China-born Henry Luce. But disillusionment, as occasionally it must to all theatergoers, came last night to this reviewer. Yaleman Harvey Small (Luce) is soon...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

Purpose of the council is to act as a liaison between undergraduates and the Graduate Committee on Regulation of Athletic Sport. The council considers any undergraduate complaints that may arise. If they are considered justifiable, they are passed on the graduate committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trimble, Houston Elected as Officers of Athletic Council | 11/1/1949 | See Source »

...game 35,000 spectators, the biggest crowd ever to watch a sport event in South Carolina, jammed the stadium. The grimmest man present was big Rex Enright, Carolina's coach. His team had lost every game this season. If he lost on Big Thursday, he and everybody else in South Carolina knew that he'd better begin looking for another job. Before the end of the first quarter, Enright's team was behind, 13-0, and the Clemson stands were calling for their boys to pour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Thursday | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...Athletic Committee has planned a larged program this year, including squash, swimming, basketball, volleyball, and touch football. The committee will award points to the winner of each sport and will determine the year's winner by adding up the total number of points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletic Committee Forms Yard Leagues | 10/28/1949 | See Source »

...sixth winter sport--squash--is taking something of a back seat, because Coach Jack Barnaby has to devote most of his time to the tennis team's fall workouts at Soldiers Field. The tennis team has more time for practice in fall than in spring, and Barnaby says it doesn't take the squash men very long to get ready...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Out-of-Season Label Fails to Halt Winter, Spring Teams | 10/27/1949 | See Source »

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