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Soccer
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...Crowded out of the national sports culture by the "American" sports of football, baseball, and...failed domestic leagues. Between 1930 and 1950, and again in the...s marginal role in American sports history. In the 1870s Harvard...
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National Collegiate Athletic Association
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...intervened with the Amateur Sports Act of 1978, taking power from...federations that governed Olympic sports. The early NCAA could not alleviate...problems of big-time college sports, including commercialization...revealed in the Carnegie Report of 1930. Football had become a huge...
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Zabłocki, Wojciech
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...x142;ocki, Wojciech (1930– ...1975), the Auditorium and Sports Hall, Bydgoszcz (1973...elements may be detected), the Sports Centre, Czestochowa (1988), the Sports Hall, Zakopane (1990), and...
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Firsts
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary
...Hist.: Plumb, 267] Armstrong, Neil (1930 – ) first person to set foot...runner to break the four-minute mile. [Sports: EB , I: 795] Bay Psalm Book, The first...Negro to play in the major leagues. [Am. Sports: NCE , 2335] “ Steamboat Willie...
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Diction, Faulty
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary
...Dizzy (1911 – 1974) famous baseball pitcher turned sports announcer: “ He slud inta t ’ ird...Great Expectations ] Spooner, Rev. W. A. (1844 – 1930) legendary for transposing initial sounds: “ our...
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public park
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...Parque Maria-Luisa, Seville, Spain (1911), by C. -N. Forestier (1861–1930) ) and North America, and gradually areas for games and sports were either added or created as separate entities. After the 1939–45 war numerous...
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Bryggman, Erik William
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...to celebrate seven centuries of the city's existence. In 1930 Bryggman won the Grand Prix at the Antwerp World Fair for his...until 1941. Other buildings by him include Vierumäki sports-club (1931–6), the library of Åbo...
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Adolescence
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...older, had a strong impact in the United States, where by 1930 nearly half of all youths aged fourteen to twenty were high...organizations and activities, such as clubs, dances, and sports, heightened the socialization of youths in peer groups. As...
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Schlesinger, Leon
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Art Studio, a business in which he later sold his interest; 1930—entered the cartoon business at the suggestion of...racetracks and an ardent gambler, he was also interested in sports, particularly deep-sea angling, at which he excelled. Though...
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Stromberg, Hunt
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...American. Born: Louisville, Kentucky, 12 July 1894. Career: Sports writer, St. Louis Times ; early 1920s—publicity...1929 Thunder (Nigh); The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Brabin) 1930 Our Blushing Brides (Beaumont) 1931 Guilty Hands (Van Dyke...
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