Word: 27th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...25th game, Alekhine sacrificed two pawns in the opening, hoped to snare his opponent's queen. Watchful Dr. Euwe withdrew the piece from danger, forced Alekhine to resign, went into the lead for the first time. Two days later he won the 26th, then lost the 27th. The next two ended in draws...
Tentative plans for a Christmas trip through central New York State are being laid with concerts at Rochester on the 26th, at Buffalo on the 27th, and at Syracuse on the 30th. These concerts will be sponsored by the Harvard clubs of the various cities. The expedition may go as far afield as Cleveland or Chicago...
...half-brother of the late Briton Hadden (cofounder of TIME, died 1929) ; suddenly, of pneumonia following acute appendicitis; at Glen Cove, N. Y. Since his brother's death a director of TIME Inc., Crowell Hadden went from Princeton (1917) into the War (1st Lieut., 106th Field Artillery, 27th Division), became in 1930 a partner of J. E. Aldred & Co. (New York bankers...
...first came in the semifinals, when Little and Johnny Goodman, U. S. Open Champion in 1933, came to the 27th hole. Little and Goodman were roommates at Cleveland's Country Club. It had been a friendly good-natured match in which, while the two joked and chatted their way around the course, Goodman had pulled up to all-even after being 2 clown at the start of the afternoon round. Now, at a short hole, Goodman pitched his tee shot within two feet of the pin for an easy birdie. Little's ball stopped rolling 15 feet from...
...fight to acquaint their men with the status of the battle. Most exciting inci dents were the routing of a detachment by a hornet's nest, the flight of an umpire with a red flag from two belligerent cows, the capture of Hill 300 by the 27th Divi sion's swift advance and its subsequent loss because of: i) failure of communica tions, 2) an attack of real ptomaine poisoning which completely incapacitated two batteries...