Word: squashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patches. From Canada, which currently has about 25 of the world's best 30 singles players, including Professional Jack Purcell who two years ago beat Hollywood's Willard for the "world's championship," the game spread quickly to Detroit, Chicago, Seattle. Badminton literature began when Squash-Badminton appeared in 1934, grew when American Lawn Tennis added a badminton section last autumn, came of age last week when the national championships made badminton in daily papers jump from the society to the sports pages. Average badminton bat weighs 5 oz. to a tennis racquet...
...Chalk Age bugs is rare almost to the point of nonexistence. Smithsonian Institution scientists were therefore delighted to receive last week two rare wing-prints lately found in 100,000,000-year-old Colorado sandstone, one of a giant leaf hopper, the other of something like a modern squash...
What particularly troubles the Law School Committee at the moment is the failure of the Linden Street squash courts to supply the needs of the whole University, and the overcrowding of the Hemenway Gymnasium. At Hemenway there are even freshman basketball teams in practice, further squeezing out the graduate students who would like to use the floors. And even the facilities for exercise which do exist are so little advertised and pushed into the public eye by the authorities in charge--a conspicuous example is Soldiers Field--that many who come to Harvard from far-away colleges never even know...
...remedy the proposal for intra-mural sports, to be arranged along the "informal but organized" lines which the Student Council has boosted in its recent recommendations for House athletics--seems to fit the needs of the case. And the hopeful proposal for more squash courts, with a compulsory athletic fee when enough have been obtained to supply the wants of all the students--though depending on a fairy godfather to furnish the capital-points in the right direction. For if the Harvard Law students of today are to stand the strain of holding down, the supreme court benches of tomorrow...
Another specific demand is that squash courts be established in Hemenway Gym since the committee declares that here are not more than two courts daily open for Law School students