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President Hoover last week took up the kind of national problem with which he knows best how to deal. A drought,* worst since the Civil war, was upon the east and midwest (see p. 15). Husbandmen across a checkerboard of devastation faced immense crop and livestock losses. President Hoover could not bring rain, but he could and did organize relief agencies
...Backgammon is played upon a board of checkerboard size, with 15 draughtsmen for each of the two players, and a pair of dice. The board is divided into four "tables," each being marked with six long triangular "points'' colored alternately in two colors. The object: to move your draughtsmen in accordance with the dice throws from your opponent's inner table to your own, and off, before he does...
...device to take the place of the timeworn chalk and blackboard or checkerboard for use in football skull practice has been developed by Mr. N. W. Fradd, Director of Hemenway Gymnasium and instructor in Physical Education...
...responsibilities have so increased that science must come to its aid. Last fortnight the University of Illinois announced that its scientists would work-with Erlenmeyer flask and petrie dish-on the problem of maintaining a satisfactory turf on football fields. The athletic association will make a 90-square checkerboard out of the gridiron. Running in crosswise strips will be nine different grasses, old, new, domestic, foreign. Ten strips, each treated with a different amount and combination of fertilizer, will run lengthwise, cutting the grass at right angles, forming 90 differently treated little experimental football fields...
...Publisher Joseph Pulitzer) sailing the seven seas on a yacht with padded decks. Again like Pulitzer, he cannot bear noise; his officers run his crew by dumb show. He smokes 50 cigars daily, sits in the saloon while two women alternately read to him. Satiated, he calls for his checkerboard. He cruises a course mapped to keep the Ohio in balmy climes. Last week he was forced to go ashore at Cape Town while the Ohio was dry-docked." - ED. Anti-Tobacco...