The Sporting News (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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Ben's most recent column was sports related, which sends me off on a
tangent.

Has anyone been able to use the new PaperofRecord interface through
google?  PaperofRecord used to be the access to the "Sporting News".
(said access sucked out loud, BTW, but occasionally it was worth the
trials and tribulations).  A year or so ago, they offered free instead
of subscription access, and a few months ago said they were moving to a
google interface (perhaps google bought their archives?).  Now all links
to Paperofrecord point to google, but if you do a search, you can't get
any hits back from the "Sporting News".  The only other product they had
that I ever found to be of use was the Baltimore "African American" and
"Grit".

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> My latest Word Routes column, inspired by President Obama's recent mea
> culpa, is on the expression "take one's lumps":
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> http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/1712/
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> OED and HDAS both have "take (one's) lumps" from 1949, with various
> earlier
> versions using different verbs ("hand over" 1930, "give" 1934,
> "receive"
> 1934, "get" 1935). In the column I cite a number of antedatings,
> starting
> with a lyrical example of "take your lumps and bruises":
>
> 1928 _Atlanta Constitution_ 21 Oct. 2B/4  So now while Youth is
calling
> / It
> will not pay to whine, / But take your lumps and bruises / For the
sake
> of
> Auld Lang Syne.
>
> --Ben Zimmer
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