Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...football fever may not have hit you yet but it will soon, for this sport is the outstanding extra-curricular activity of the fall, and this competition offers you an excellent chance to become an actual part of it. During the next few days most of you will talk to one of the present managers, but this article will serve to familiarize you with our system, its aims and its benefits before you are actually contacted...
...American tradition seems to demand that in the fall football shall be the only sport spoken of, but on the wired in acres across the street from Soldiers Field a half a hundred Crimson-clad athletes spend their autumn afternoons playing international football, or soccer as most call...
...Schneider's Alberg school has ruled for years, and uncounted thousands have angled their skis in stem and snowplow turns. But to a man, the Portillo pupils raved about Allais. His theories, the Americans predicted, would soon sweep the U.S. Chile's Government, eager to foster Andean sport and latch on to a few badly needed tourist dollars, hopes to sign Allais to a five-year contract that will keep him teaching his tricks at Portillo...
Even in the lush twenties, when the Whitneys, Woodwards, Wideners and Sinclairs spent millions on the sport of kings, no stable had ever corralled such a fancy crop of horseflesh. Calumet's clear profit this year will top $600,000 (before taxes). The only other fancy U.S. stable likely even to finish in the black is Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's (which has Phalanx, winner of $236,400, on its team...
...London), Strong distinguishes six common deficiencies in poetry teachers: The teacher dislikes poetry. "A great deal of the current British hostility to poetry dates from the careers of Byron and Shelley, reinforced by that of Oscar Wilde, which have connected it with effeminacy, goings-on, incapacity for sport...