Word: billiards
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...billiard room? One of the best places to take a student's mind off his work, especially a Freshman...
...judges' complicated scoring awarded the title to 196-lb. Ralph McCreath, Canadian champion, by .8 of a point over U. S. Champion Eugene Turner. > Silver-haired Willie Hoppe, 53-year-old, 45-year veteran cueman; the monthlong, round-robin tournament for the world's three-cushion billiard championship; for the second successive year; winning all but one of his 17 matches, after a tardy start because of pneumonia; at Bensinger's billiard parlors, Chicago...
...however involved it may be in World War II, is not fighting with any nation, but last week newsmen in Washington were brought face to face with the problems of wartime newsgathering. Some of them came in physical contact with it. For three days correspondents filed into the billiard room of the White House to be photographed and fingerprinted by the Secret Service in order to get passes to attend President Roosevelt's press conferences...
...cannot have permanent waves, fancy coiffeurs, heavy makeup, manicures, high heels or too bright kimonos. Tokyo Imperial University students must walk to school if they live within two kilometres, can go to the theatre only on weekends or holidays, can't go at all to mah-jongg parlors, billiard saloons, cafes, bars. Tokyo cafes can have only one waitress per six square metres of floor space, instead of one per four square metres as formerly. Gasoline is forbidden to the few thousands who own private cars...
...mailboxes, 30 bridge tables, 16 bowling alleys, 15 billiard tables...