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Since 1905 a foul blot has stained the national checker escutcheon. In that year a team of British thinkers journeyed to Boston, administered an overwhelming defeat to the U. S. players. Last week in Manhattan the blot was removed. The U. S. team swamped the combined talent of England and Scotland, hopping to victory in each of the twelve rounds played...
...heaven of headquarters. And then they knew that the mist was a renascence of that spirit of learning so much a part of college life for policemen are, in a sense collegians. Both then drank ginger beer to the health of learning and smiled at each other over the checker board. Though seven people were shot in Dorchester and a bank in Squantum was robbed, each decided that the spirit of education, being what it seemed, was ater all, worth the sacrifice. And each had engraved on his coat of arms "Felices Ter Et Amplius", which of course has much...
...deference to its Latin American friends (who dislike seeing the term "American" appropriated by the United States), TIME employs a "checker" whose special function it is to cross out "American" wherever it is improperly used and to insert "U.S." In editing "early American furnishings" into "early U. S. furnishings," this person permitted his zeal to overbalance his good sense...
...class of 1923 will attend the second Yale hockey game at the Arena on February 14 in a body. Proceeding the game there will be an informal dinner at the Checker lan, Boston. Already over 50 men have made their plans to attend, but H. H. Reed '23, who is managing the affair", announced last night that more could be accommodated if they apply to him at 4 Randolph Hall today without fall. The evening's entertainment will cost each...
...straight in figures, but illogical and picturesque in speech. . . ." Candidate Bryan. "Younger brother to greatness, private secretary to a three-times candidate for President, business manager of the one-man Bryan newspaper, the Commoner, booker of the prince of Peace lectures, caller of the taxicabs to the Lincoln home, checker of the sacred suitcase on all trains-how could he emerge himself as a personality, the best gasoline-buying, coal-selling Governor Nebraska ever had? . . . He runs the State of Nebraska as if it were a small-town shop and he were the shopkeeper. And I am bound...