Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...three-walled court about two-thirds as long as a football field. As in all court games, a player scores a point by acing his opponent or making him fault. Winning score varies from 6 (elimination singles) to 30 (elimination doubles). In elimination singles matches, two players start; when one loses a point he sits down and does not get on the court again until his turn comes. Bets are made on teams, on separate matches, on the length of time one player will hold the court. In a doubles match the players move so fast that without their bright...
...coincidence of the test and the beginning of new courses in which it is important to get a good start offers a further difficulty. Moreover, if the early date is planned to prevent last minute cramming, it must fall, for the crammer believes ten days enough. The simple solution of postponing the examination one or two weeks would give sufficient respite without crowding the March tests known as April hours...
...when the spectators own the sport, as they now own intercollegiate football, the players are professionalized regardless of how they are recruited or subsidized, regardless of whether they play for dear old Rutgers, or for cheers and newspaper headlines, or for membership in fraternities, or for a head start in business afterward. When the spectators own the sport the players don't own it. They don't play the game for its own sake. They are entertainers. And out of that fundamental fact flows the whole business of professional coaches, barnstorming exhibitions, underhand evasion of the rules and the conception...
...racers for South American air transportation are Pan-American Airways and New York, Rio and Buenos Aires Line. The latter, of which onetime Assistant Secretary of Commerce William Patterson MacCracken is now board chairman, last week had most of its planes and pilots at their stations alert to start their service between Manhattan and Buenos Aires...
...Manager C.E. Galston '30 will outline to the candidates the plans for winter track and field activity. Last year over 100 men reported, and it is hoped that this year will bring out as many as 120 men. The first few weeks of the preliminary training, which will start at once, will be devoted to general practice sessions with frequent time trials...