Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inter-school athletic programs failed to get a nod from the body. Since some graduate schools have no teams to field in any sport, the Joint Student Association felt it would be better to keep intra-University athletics on an informal, elastic level...
Since only half the men had anything resembling previous experience in the sport, much of the session was devoted to instruction in the fundamentals and rules of the game. Most of the experienced players come from the Business and Law Schools, two or three being graduates of English colleges...
Implicit in the prospectus was another idea, not directly stated: "The busy man," for TIME'S purposes, was to be regarded as an expert on nothing. The National Affairs department was not written for politicians, nor Foreign News for cosmopolites, nor Books for bookworms, nor Sport for sport fans. The whole magazine was supposed to be comprehensible to one "busy man"-a vastly different notion from daily newspaper departments (women's, sports, finance, etc.), each appealing to special groups. To get all of TIME into one man's head it had first to be put in language...
Pits & Hotel Rooms. Even though banned everywhere but in Florida, the "sport" goes on all over the U.S.-in hotel rooms and in portable pits in barns or pine groves. The sport supports four trade magazines, jammed with announcements of fights and advertisements of gaffs, sparring muffs, conditioning coops...
Texas has more big-time chicken men than any other state, headed by ex-Boxer Bobby Manziel, who struck it rich wildcatting for oil on $700 borrowed from his friend, Jack Dempsey. Manziel has a special plane to carry his chickens to & from fights. Not counting bets, the sport costs Manziel about $25,000 a year...