Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mother bought him a $10 typewriter around the same time.) His first writing coup was of a sort to make his father apoplectic. Pen-named as a woman, the 14-year-old Tom won a $25 Smart Set contest on the subject "Can a Good Wife Be a Good Sport?" He went on to be published in a magazine called Weird Tales, with a story titled, The Vengeance of Nitocris. Opening sentence: "Hushed were the streets of many-peopled Thebes...
...fencing, the freshman team proved once again that fencing is decidedly not a traditionally strong sport here. Salvaging one victory over M.I.T. from their five-match schedule, they evidenced the weakness which plagues every Harvard fencing team: inexperience...
Although hockey is traditionally a strong sport here, this year's edition not only didn't have too much overall skating ability but also were weak in shooting prowess. However, improving with every game, they finally put together a five game streak without a loss, including three wins and two ties. This streak was inhospitably shattered by Yale in the final game of the season...
Floating Camera. Indeed, weightlessness became a sort of sport. Glenn had with him a small hand camera to take pictures with through his window. "It just seemed perfectly natural, rather than put the camera away, I just put it out in mid-air and let go of it." With the camera suspended as though on an invisible shelf, Glenn went on with other work, then reached back and plucked the camera out of the air. Only once was there any difficulty. Preparing to change film, Glenn let the roll slip out of his fingers. He grabbed for it, but "instead...
...circumstances of hockey in the Western League seem to us to be on the wrong track, involving generally the heavy recruiting of Canadian players, the use of athletic scholarships, and what appears to be an intensive effort to develop a big-time, commercially successful sport. . . These circumstances, pressing college sports on toward commercialism in aim and professionalism in spirit, are quite precisely the circumstances that the Ivy League colleges have banded together to avoid...