Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hogan was the 14th cover story† that Marshall Smith has written for TIME'S Sport department in the last four years. An ex-prep school swimmer and football player, he confesses to an insider's knowledge of only one sport: horse racing (his father was a horse owner and trainer who made the circuit from Cuba to Montreal for 15 years). Smith, who is 34, came to TIME five years ago via his native Baltimore's Evening Sun, the Providence Star-Tribune and Journal, where he wrote sports and features for seven years...
What happens when a well trained, fairly experienced college freshman team meets a green prep school team was clearly illustrated in the Indoor Athletic Building yesterday afternoon as the freshman basketball squad completely subdued Tabor Academy...
Quinn said that the clinics are being held "with the hope that all college, prep school, and high school coaches by their attendance will be better able to teach professional standards of baseball play...
...Yardlings, undefeated in scholastic matches, are only a few points out of first place in the metropolitan league. Coach Wynn says his current freshmen make up "the deepest team I've over had." All top-seeded men are veterans of prep school play...
Eton Made Me. Connolly concludes his book with a chunk of autobiography that illustrates parts of his thesis. Like Shelleyblake, he too had shown high promise. From his prep school he won a scholarship to Eton; from Eton he won a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford. He drugged himself with the heady compliments of classics masters, and made a bible of the Romantic tradition. Now, he feels, it was hardly surprising that his boyish successes served only to underscore his inability to continue them. "I was to continue . . . being promising indefinitely . . . Promise is the capacity for letting people down...