Word: checkerboard
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...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. Seizing rare opportunity, a correspondent wrote: "Like a crowd of ghosts the sailors lowered the landing launch. They suddenly stopped when...
...tall golfer, in a white shirt and a pair of dejected grey flannel breeches, went out to the first tee of the Philmont Country Club, Philadelphia, to play against a nattier fellow?one arrayed in checkerboard golf-pantings, ring-streaked stockings like a baseball player's, a panama and an eloquent watch-fob. On the first hole the tall man drove into the woods. He did not swear; only a tyro begins swearing on the first hole. Instead, he took an iron and got out on the fairway. This successful feat appeared somewhat to excite him. He took three putts...
Flanders, the cockpit of Europe; the Balkans, the checkerboard of European politics; in a word, this has been Continental history for over a century. We may go far in our explanations of the causes of this war, but we must inevitably turn to the land of many races and mongrel nations if we are ever clearly to understand them. The events of July, 1914, were in great part the result of the previous thirty years intrigue in the Balkans. The events of March, 1918, are surely the same. Pan-Germanism, for three years at a stand-still, once more takes...
...best work, perhaps, appeared in France in the early part of the last century. "Mathematical Recreations," by Ball, contains a very interesting chapter on magic squares. An engraving of Albert Duner's, executed about 1500, shows a remarkable square of the fourth order. This square has four cells or checkerboard squares on a side. Any column or diagonal adds up to 34. There are more than 500,000 different magic squares of the fifth order...
...only six are on the line, one of the backfield must be outside the end linesman. Under these conditions, which apply to the whole field of play, the quarterback may run with the ball provided he goes 5 yards outside of center in advancing the ball. This makes checkerboard markings necessary over the entire field...