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Word: checkerboards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pilot's compartment and hear weather reports through a radio headset. The plane passes near National Cash Register's factory at Dayton, on to Indianapolis' new municipal airport for another ten-minute stop. Beyond St. Louis no passenger will fail to notice the widening checkerboard of section line's. Thinning population is plainly charted by farm boundaries flung to the horizon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: The Big Trails | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

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

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Drought Relief | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Backgammon | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

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