Word: squashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...figures released last Friday on the Freshman winter sports activities show that swimming is still leading in popularity and has, in fact, increased tis fall total of 249 to 262. Squash, which is only a winter sport, is in second place with 149 players, probably having absorbed a large number of the 177 yardlings who played tennis in the fall...
...Army, more bumps: substitutes may have to be devised for the foamed latex cushions in tanks, crash pads in airplanes, and parachute seats. Football and basketball bladders had gone the way of golf, tennis, squash and handballs (TIME...
...golfers, the 4.000,000 tennis players, and innumerable ball-bouncers, the grim reality of war was brought stunningly home last week. OPM ruled: no more golf, tennis, squash, hand-balls. Stricken sportsmen, brooding on the last bounce of the last ball, swamped stores (one sports shop sold 2,000 dozen golf balls by 11 a.m.). Other gamesters planned to take up games priorities could never affect: croquet, parchesi...
Before breakfast was over, women would start thinking about their dinners. The big dish would be turkey or goose or, in the Rocky Mountain States, perhaps venison. In New England there would be squash and plum pudding, in the South rice and yams, in Texas a big cut-glass bowl of homemade, ruby-red agarita jelly...
During the Christmas recess dressing facilities in Hemenway Gymnasium will be provided for students now holding lockers in the Indoor Athletic Building and the University squash courts...