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Monkey and the Weight."-And his practical inventions included a plan for simplifying money orders, "a new and better rule for Lawn Tennis," a new form of backgammon, a folder for postage stamps. He was delighted to sit up "till 4 a.m., over a tempting problem sent me from New York, 'to find three equal rational-sided right-angled triangles' ... I found two . . . but could not find three...
...mocked in the Holy Land. Across the barbed-wire frontier that divides Palestine with a crown of thorns, Arab legionnaires in red-and-white-checked kefiyas and Jewish soldiers in British-style khaki eye each other warily, fingers on triggers. By night in Arab border hamlets, villagers playing backgammon in the coffee houses hush their voices the better to hear the stealthy pad of an approaching "reprisal" patrol. In the white Israeli houses shaped like sugar cubes, newcomers to Israel anxiously tack grenade-proof netting across the window frames for protection against Arab-hurled "mosquitoes...
Highlighting the Class of 1898 events, which started yesterday and are not due to end until tomorrow, is a dinner this evening at the Harvard Club of Boston. The Forty-Fifth Reunion class of 1903 opens its program today with bowling on the green, golf, and backgammon at the Country Club in Brookline, and a dinner at 7 o'clock; the Fortieth Reunion Class started off last night with festivities at the Hatherly Country Club in Scituate and will wind up its preceedings at an Algonquin Club dinner tonight...
...bothered by shortness of breath and pounding of his heart under exertion. Doctors diagnosed it as a "slow heart," but nothing organically wrong. They prescribed digitalis (which he has taken ever since). The ailment has never recurred. For recreation, he likes to play gin rummy or backgammon with his wife, swims (sidestroke) twice a week in the Senate pool. Back home in Grand Rapids, he lives in a biggish brick & stucco house, works at an old-fashioned rolltop desk in his book-lined...
Along with goldfish gulping and backgammon, the last few years have witnessed the virtual disappearance of rugger from the Cambridge scene. To the contemporary undergraduate the name "rugby" might identify a town in North Dakota exalted as "the geographic center of North America" just as readily as it would be associated with a British athletic indulgence occasionally practiced in the United States...