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Word: sportlight (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amateur standing, that she had not been paid for the testimonial, she would be reinstated. While pondering this nice point in an argument which invariably reduces itself to tedious hairsplitting. Miss Didrikson must also have wondered what A. A. U. officials would have to say about a Grantland Rice "Sportlight" cinema called Wonder Girl, to be released next month. In Wonder Girl, Wonder Girl Didrikson high-jumps, broad-jumps, hurdles, puts the shot, throws the javelin and discus, dives, swims, plays baseball, football, golf, tennis, basketball. Grantland Rice, who at the Olympics called Miss Didrikson "an incredible human being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wonder Girl | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

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