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Word: sportingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like to register a protest. Your fighting cocks story [TIME, March 8] didn't belong in the Sport section. This bloody mark on the escutcheon of our so-called "civilized" society is hardly sport. Judging from the heavy wagering involved, the morbid details might more appropriately have appeared under Business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 12, 1948 | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

Television, always solid with sport fans, has proved that it can also score a hit with youngsters. NBC's "Howdy Doody," a lop-legged, mop-wigged puppet with a Snerdish grin, is the children's special delight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Howdy | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

Died. Admiral Joseph Mason ("Bull") Reeves, U.S.N. (ret.), 75, early advocate of naval air power, first Commander in Chief of the U.S. fleet (1934-36) to wear wings (observer) and last to sport a beard (Vandyke); of a heart ailment; in Bethesda, Md. Reeves, a stanchion-stiff disciplinarian, earned his first commendation in the engine room of the Oregon on her round-the-Horn dash from San Francisco harbor to the Caribbean in '98, served with the Atlantic fleet in World War I, came out of retirement in World War II to serve as the Navy's Lend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 5, 1948 | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...Stanley of Preston, then Governor General of Canada, it was the exclusive property of amateurs until 1911. By then, most of the simon-pures had turned pro and the cup went to play-for-pay teams by default. † But for news of what it may degenerate into, see SPORT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Life on the Ice | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...have been practicing outside since the first of March. True, Maddux has had three dozen players working out in the Cage since early in February, but indoor work does little more than get the men in shape and teach the coach their names. In addition, lacrosse is a major sport down Chesapeake way, almost as big as football, with crowds of three and four thousand spectators not uncommon...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/25/1948 | See Source »

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